Looks like Minesweeper is overcolored and it's not in one style - like placing ultra-modern roof over old hut. For chess I would prefer chessboard just flying over desktop not surrounded by ugly square window - where is so widely advertised "new superb aero interface"?! There are hundreds of such "3d-chess" - every student makes such studying programming. And overall - it took 10 years for dumb windows-users to grow up to Chess and Mahjong - two more things Gates stole from 1996's release of OS/2! Almost everything "new" in any windows release is just copy of what was done in 1996's OS/2 Warp 4. Quick-launch, one single tree for desktop and "Start" menu (though in windooze it couldn't be done correcty - it's no object-oriented OS) and a lot more are the examples. Many features are still beyond the competents of windooze-makers.
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