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

At the time (Vista, btw, not Windows 7), many claimed that the effect was a waste of screen space and wanted it gone..

You are using it as a soapbox to launch an attack on Microsoft. There is no heart in your ramblings..

I bloody know right?! Microsoft neo-imperialist, Social Darwinian arrogance against proletariat customers that loved the new style they had materialised from Windows 7 onwards.

Its quite so pathetic, sycophant, ignorant as well as morbid on their part not to come to the realisation that lots of us still love, moreover forever will love, the transparency effect.

(Oh, Microsoft, I made my own thread to resurrect the subject, http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr-desktop/windows-81-enable-aero-glass-transparency/2df91bc8-bc4a-48da-bb8b-db2b74f8e967 since it seems as if this corporation's bluds are attempting to silence this matter, amongst others)

   Let's consider that ideas for a moment, we'll tell the users to constantly switch back and forth from the Desktop screen to the Start screen. Hmmm...That sounds plausible doesn't it. Let's see it's not here so let's go look over there.

 

I don't get you. You say that it is faster to have all the icons on the desktop and taskbar. I say that you can do exactly the same on windows 8. And you reply saying that we are telling users to constantly switch back and forth? Either you have some reading comprehension issues or you are winding me up.

"Well, is branding more important than user satisfaction if your branding makes me hate your brand? I don't care if it's flat or shiny. I want things arranged and functioning on my desktop like they have always done without a problem. Microsoft has created a problem and doesn't want to fix it because some marketing **** slobbered about cross-platform branding during a meeting and some fool bought it."

That (the bold text) is what Windows 3.1 users said about Windows 95.

Decisions for the Windows 8 UI were made which have proved to be less than popular, and Microsoft has Windows Blue in the wings, full content unknown as yet, with which to make amends.

If Microsoft provides the Start menu, can you give us a preview of the next 'can't do without or I will buy a Mac' feature you consider to be missing and/or so desperately important?

XP always ran appreciably better on budget machines if the Classic theme was selected.

Vista was slow as molasses, and the slick look didn't help one bit. It didn't help that the Vista era saw a major shift to home users buying laptops with less than good integrated video either. A visit to 'Performance....' in Control Panel always showed that performance could be increased by knocking out some or all of the slick features.

Windows 7 was given the Aero theme because speed was clawed back from other areas, but still the 'Perfromance.....' utility in Control panel advised removal of some or all of Aero if the user wanted to get more overall performance.

So, now Microsoft have an OS which looks the same across the various platforms and will perform well across the various platforms, assuming that the screen resolution is greater than 1024 x 600. It makes economic sense for Microsoft and the end user, neither having to pay top dollar to get all that the OS promises.

The Windows 8 interface is flat, but I would not call it 'distracting' exactly, especially in Windows 8 app mode where there are NO borders.. Well, is branding more important than user satisfaction if your branding makes me hate your brand? I don't care if it's flat or shiny. I want things arranged and functioning on my desktop like they have always done without a problem. Microsoft has created a problem and doesn't want to fix it because some marketing **** slobbered about cross-platform branding during a meeting and some fool bought it.