Without makeup

I have a special way of judging how far a particular version of Windows has progressed.

I look at the Add Font dialog box.

When you drag some fonts to your C:\WINDOWS\Fonts directory, a little box pops up and installs your fonts. In Windows XP, it looks something like this:

What the hell is that? It's easy to see that even though the shrinkwrap packaging says XP, it's still Windows 3.1 at heart.

I'm happy to report that when you try the same thing in Windows Vista, the associated dialog box looks like Windows XP! I call that progress!