| If the newer, Intel-based Macs can do it, why can't | | | | Apple. |
| the iPhone ? Especially after Microsoft's | | | | Now some Windows users hate Vista (as you may |
| much-publicized invention of Windows Mobile, there | | | | or may not have heard). Surprisingly often, in fact, |
| seems no reason why an Apple iPhone can't run | | | | people have been known to uninstall Windows Vista |
| Microsoft Windows, at least so says Steve Jobs. And | | | | from their PCs and laptops and replace it with the |
| it looks like, once again, the techno mega-mogul is | | | | older but preferred Windows XP. And, alas, there is |
| absolutely right! | | | | no Windows XP for iPhone - at least not yet. |
| VistaPerfection 2.0 is its name, and it's a mobile | | | | Of course, one of the biggest complaints from PC |
| Windows Vista platform for use on the Apple iPhone. | | | | users about Windows Vista is that it's a resource |
| Well, sort of... | | | | hog. But since VistaPerfection 2.0 is not actually the |
| Developed by Spec-Works, an independent software | | | | Vista OS itself but rather just a skin mimicking its |
| developer, and available at a website called Modify | | | | interface, users won't have to worry about that |
| My iFone, VistaPerfection gives iPhone users much of | | | | problem slowing down, freezing, or otherwise |
| Vista's look and feel without actually giving them | | | | adversely affecting their iPhone. |
| Windows Vista's capabilities. That means you get the | | | | Regardless, Spec-Works did a good job of simulating |
| wallpaper, graphics, sound effects, Start Menu, | | | | the Vista look-and-feel with their product, as the |
| sidebar, and - yes - windows familiar to all Microsoft | | | | VistaPerfection interface is sharp, snazzy, and stylish. |
| Windows users (along with more than 90 favorite | | | | It's at least impressive to look at, even if you're not |
| Windows icons including dock icons), but you don't | | | | so keen for the feel. |
| actually get the Windows Vista operating system | | | | The one glaring hitch with this software, however, is |
| itself. | | | | that it is not yet available as a conveniently |
| Other parts of the Windows Vista experience made | | | | downloadable and installable Installer.app file, instead |
| manifest in this simulator for iPhones are sliders, | | | | requiring a lot more fiddling around (such as with |
| status bars, badges, task bars, bottom bars, highlight | | | | Secure Shell, or SSH) than most consumers are willing |
| masks, sound schemes, and login/logoff, unlock/lock, | | | | or able to perform. |
| and boot/restore items. | | | | Fortunately, the folks at ModifyMyiFone heard this call |
| Consider it more a theme download, a skin, for your | | | | and have already announced the imminent release of |
| iPhone's native GUI than a replacement (or | | | | VistaPerfection 3.0, available as an installer.app file. |
| supplementary) operating system. The | | | | Our advice then, for Windows lovers with iPhones, is |
| VistaPerfection download is really about interface - | | | | to wait for v3.0 of VistaPerfection, and leave v2.0 to |
| designed to make it easier and more comfortable for | | | | the techies. |
| Windows users to make the mobile transition to | | | | |