Saturday, May 19th 2012
Latest Windows 8 Screenshots Reveal Ouster of Aero Glass UI
In June, Microsoft will unveil the first Release Preview of Windows 8, its next major version of the Windows (client). Some of the latest screenshots of the teething operating system made it to the web, and reveal some significant changes to the UI, apart from the Metro UI. With its Desktop workspace, Windows 8 embraces a new UI design, that does away with the glassy Aero design that was introduced with Windows Vista. What we have instead, are minimalist titlebars with centered window titles, flat window control buttons, and a blending of the titlebar's color with that of the other menubars. Microsoft justifies the design change by calling the older Aero UI "dated and cheesy." Microsoft assured users that it will assist in the transition between the two UIs, apart from the major change that Metro is.
Sources:
MSDN Blogs, Engadget
83 Comments on Latest Windows 8 Screenshots Reveal Ouster of Aero Glass UI
Aero looks good an is nice on the eyes after some turning, with the right background.
OSX looks better than that, but MS just love flat colours. OSX did transparency better anyway.
Though I do think its nicer without shadows, I have them turned off for windows and icons.
So really I have been hating MS and Apple for a while now.
In this case its not even MS trying to copy what Apple has done and seems to work. Instead lets completely mess up what people have liked about the last version of windows..then pile another suitcase of bad on top of that!
LOL!!
I dare anyone to say that out loud with a straight face.
ms should have won a prize with that one.
That aero glass effect had a bit of elegance to it....
blog.gsmarena.com/this-is-what-windows-8-on-desktop-should-have-looked-like/#0_undefined,0_
Did Apple ever grow out of that? Gah I got sick of it so long ago but all they'd do was more and more of it.
I don't see what the fuss about Aero is. I like it.
MS designed this UI in white boxed rooms with 1000 watt florescent lighting and desks from an industrial supply wearhouse. of course that UI would make sense to them, however in most people's houses it would look like eve from wall-e in a neoclassical designed suburban tract home... very out of place.