Why would Microsoft remove the beautiful Aero Glass effect and replace it with flat colors and cheesy translucency?

Barry......they didn't listen. I'm looking to remove W-10 less than a week into the release after the release of Windows face-tweet-phone app-Mac copy-10.

Your graphic arts are hacked up child's play MS........ command, file, write.......

I think I bought a PC, no tellin' really ????????????????????

No Aero Glass is an absolute deal breaker for me.  There is no way I'm installing those ugly flat windows on my desktop.  The transparency that is there which lacks blurring is an ugly joke.  On a scale from one to ten of how upset I am over this... I'm like 1000000000 seriously considering buying a Mac out of pure out-of-my-mind crazy spite.  I cannot even express in words how upset I am over this.  There is absolutely zero chance that I will ever install Windows 8 or Blue or any another Windows operating system onto my computer until Aero Glass is returned or something more beautiful is included.

I am not developing a single app for Windows until Glass is added back.  For my next phone... I was considering Windows Phone 8.  I even stopped by and played with one at Verizon the other day.  No glass?  I'm not wasting my time looking for mods.  Windows Blue is going to be very sad, because I am ditching Windows permanently if glass is not added back, like now, like before I have to spend a single additional second trying to find workarounds on the internet.  Yep.  I can feel an Android Phone in my future, and a sudden love for Java, which I currently hate, coming on.  Feels like the incredible .NET is being abandoned too.  Guess I better go submit my resume to Google.

Hi there,

I too will not be purchasing further Windows products if Aero is not installed and or able to be set as default for the user.

I spend way too much time on computers not to have it easy on the eye such as Aero does for me and many other co-workers!!

MS really need to consider the user and not go down the ignorant path of those fruity product products.

Bring on W10 with Aero

Barry

I am a Mac guy. I live by Apple, but I do have a Windows 7 Bootcamp and I refuse to update it to Windows 8 for the same reason. Windows 7 is far more appealing than Windows 8 because of the aero glass and even OS X Yosemite looks far better than Windows 8. It looks like the flat Metro design is here to stay, at least through Windows 10.

The recent new MacOS X Yosemite pretty much copied Win7 and uses transparency EVERYHERE now. Not just the menubar and menus, but in the sidebar and even titlebar of windows. Heck, some windows are almost completely transluscent (a la Windows Media Player once upon a time). Yet battery still lasts 8+ hours. Hmmm.

Aero never really affected battery life. Not even on plain vanilla Intel Graphics.

Rhetorical, I assume?