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

Anonymous
2012-11-29T07:30:29+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2013-04-11T23:39:16+00:00

    I agree completely. Windows 8s flat theme looks like microsoft have taken a massive step back to windows 98. Aero in windows 7 looks so much better and I understand about the cpu usage but heres a crazy idea.....let the user decide what theme they want? people with decent computers can have the awesome aero look and people who have a lower spec computer or for some bizarre reason prefer 8s theme they can choose to stick with that. I was condsidering updating to windows 8 after i saw the fast boot times etc. the metro start bar isnt ideal but i can deal with that but aero, stupid as it sounds, is the main reason im not upgrading. I guess im just tempted by the latest OS because really windows 7 is perfect and theres no need to upgrade at all. I'll definitely be sticking with windows 7 for as long as possible. On a side note, why the **** are they discontinuing xna? Stupid

    EDIT: Didnt mean this as a direct reply to Mike Halls comment, that was accidental

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-04-11T11:10:35+00:00

    During the installation of windows 8 through a boot disc the window is actually similar to the glass aero one in windows 7. Most likely Microsoft did not remove glass aero, it could be hidden in windows 8 which you can enable through a registry hack or something. Nobody really knows how to do it yet but I'm sure sometime we will find out.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-04-11T10:48:59+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-04-11T05:32:13+00:00

    Hi all, 

    The Aero Glass add a rich look and feel to Windows OS and in my perspective, only a MAD person would remove such a beauty. Aero Glass made Windows 7 to gain market and Micorosoft should be insane to ditch it. 

    If Aero Glass is very resource hungry, then provide both the Aero Glass and Metro theme, the user can choose which to use based on the system's config.

    If Microsoft wants to get profits and improve it's position, then the only way to attain that is to satisfy it's customers, and the customers wants AERO GLASS back..

    Bring AERO GLASS back.. Bring AERO GLASS back...

    Listen to your customers and provide a rich UI for the upcoming Windows OS... if Windows Blue does not have an UI similar to Aero Glass or better than that, then it is a sign that Microsoft has stopped listening to is customers and all the effort that the employees of Microsoft had put in the new OS will be in vain..

    WE DO NOT WANT A 2D INTERFACE....

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-03-05T17:25:42+00:00

    “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.

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