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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.
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So you buy a PC just to admire the Start screen? What a waste of a computer.
A Mac copy? This has been levelled at MS Windows since the very beginning, but in those days, copying ideas was done both ways and was fair game..
Aero was seen as a waste of screen space when it first appeared and not all PCs could handle it. Like many things in this life, cult status only comes after the demise..
Why not allow users to turn it off/on? Rather than completely removing it.
How dumb. Just dumb. Negative in all aspects. Dumb.
Sorry Mike Hall. I appreciate your desire to lower resource requirements of the OS, but the performance fear is generally unfounded. Modern hardware is WAY more than capable of aero glass with negligible impact on anything. My 8 year old laptop, which was low end when I bought it with a Pentium M and Intel integrated graphics, ran aero glass without a hitch. Modern PCs are also orders of magnitude more powerful than they were in 2006 when Vista launched. It's been 8 years. I haven't seen a PC ship with less than 4GB of ram in years. Even the lowest end Dell home models ship with 8GB of ram. (http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-3847-desktop/pd?ref=PD_Family).
To claim that it requires a $10,000 PC to have nice graphics in the OS is rediculous and absurd. We're not playing Crysis 3 at max settings, we're providing a relatively simple guassian blur filter.
On top of all of this, we're requesting a feature that could be turned off since it was featured in Vista. Do you have an issue with unchecking a checkbox in the personalization control panel? It's literally a 3 second task to disable and never see again (and does not use any of those extra resources) while provided thousands of people with a feature they want.
MS would be as bad as the apple troglodytes if they did not listen to the coalface users. Bring back Aero Glass with W10 or continue to loose those of us on the cusp that detest fruit products but need smooth edges and the transparent look as we are on our devices for many hours both at work and at home.
Many hours looking at the 2013 office trial was enough for me; I deleted it and went back to 2010, a far superior product for long term users.
Barry
Sorry Mike Hall. I appreciate your desire to lower resource requirements of the OS, but the performance fear is generally unfounded. Modern hardware is WAY more than capable of aero glass with negligible impact on anything. My 8 year old laptop, which was low end when I bought it with a Pentium M and Intel integrated graphics, ran aero glass without a hitch. Modern PCs are also orders of magnitude more powerful than they were in 2006 when Vista launched. It's been 8 years. I haven't seen a PC ship with less than 4GB of ram in years. Even the lowest end Dell home models ship with 8GB of ram. (http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-3847-desktop/pd?ref=PD_Family).
To claim that it requires a $10,000 PC to have nice graphics in the OS is rediculous and absurd. We're not playing Crysis 3 at max settings, we're providing a relatively simple guassian blur filter.
On top of all of this, we're requesting a feature that could be turned off since it was featured in Vista. Do you have an issue with unchecking a checkbox in the personalization control panel? It's literally a 3 second task to disable and never see again (and does not use any of those extra resources) while provided thousands of people with a feature they want.
This sounds like so much collective thinking to me. You will make your PC look like what Microsoft wants it to look like. You will assimilate into the Borg.
Why should I change my taste and style to accommodate a look that's designed for spoiled kids and "hip" grandmas. If the capability for a look-and-feel is there, let users decide for themselves if they want to use it.
It's my computer, not Microsoft's. My HOA doesn't come into my home and tell me what color to paint my walls and what carpet to install (as much as I'm sure they'd love to!). MS shouldn't tell me what my computer should look like either.
Also, the argument that the Aero theme is a performance hit is lame. The degradation is infinitesimal and not noticeable in the least, even for laptop users. I even heard people argue that we need to remove Aero to save electricity. Seriously? I'm surprised no one's mentioned global warming and that we need to get rid of it to "save the polar bears". (shhhh! Don't say that too loud!).
Bottom line. Aero glass rocks! The "new" interface looks like Windows 3.1 to me.
