Windows Vista: Aero Glass and Java Don't Mix

by admin October 2, 2006 at 8:30 am

Among the wrinkles still to be ironed out of Microsoft’s Windows Vista before the long-awaited client operating system goes gold is the tendency of Vista’s shiny new “glass” UI to balk at Java-based applications.

In eWEEK Labs’ Vista tests, most recently with the post-RC1 Build 5728, Aero Glass has reverted to the sans-translucence, sans-3D effects, plain old Aero interface each time we’ve launched a Java-based client application.

Read more: Microsoft Watch