A very interesting article by eWeek.com about the Windows Vista graphics gap talks about some of the different themes that will ship with Vista and how Aero will only be enabled if the system detects a worthy graphics card. The article brings forth some good questions regarding how some of today's PC's will run Vista when it ships in 2006. I can tell you now, the PC I have running testing Vista currently runs quite well.

But the article got me thinking, how many themes will ship with Vista? I did blog about the non-Aero theme in Vista currently several weeks ago hoping Microsoft will choose to enhance the non-Aero themes a bit to still give Vista a fresh look despite not using the high end Aero theme.

But eWeek's article has me thinking of how many themes will actually ship with Vista? Right now, we have of course Aero, then we have Classic and then we have an XP-ish metallic theme that is loaded default if your graphics card cannot sustain Aero. I wonder what's up Microsoft's sleeve.

(via: Brandon LeBlanc)