Should you make the jump to Windows Vista? If you can read Japanese, then maybe this helpful pamphlet can answer that question for you.
I recently took a week-long vacation to visit some family in Japan. On our last day there, I dragged my girlfriend to DeoDeo, the big box electronics chain store. They are sort of like the BestBuy of Japan – they sell everything from air conditioners and office furniture to cell phones and giant plasma TVs. Good times.
While checking out the latest laptop hardware, I grabbed one of these Windows Vista brochures. DeoDeo put it together to answer common questions its customers have about Vista. It's a Q&A – What is Aero? What are gadgets? There are also some answers about upgrading, security, IE 7 and Outlook. I can't read Japanese, so that's about all I could discern from looking at the pictures. One of my favorite pieces (clipped above) shows the cartoon DeoDeo employee holding up six fingers to denote the six different versions of the OS. It seems as though the confounding nature of Microsoft's tiered release strategy spans all languages.
Full scans after the jump. What do you think the brochure says? If you can read Japanese, please tell us. If you can't, then put your best guesses in the comments. Let the snarkiness begin...
UPDATE: Reader "figgy" has translated the whole first page in the comments! Thanks, fig!
