How dare you say it is bad!
Really?
Why would Microsoft remove the beautiful Aero Glass effect and replace it with flat colors and cheesy translucency?
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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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2013-11-22T14:21:19+00:00 -
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2013-11-22T13:55:57+00:00 Although beta versions of Windows 8 used an updated version of Aero Glass with a flatter, squared look, Aero Glass is no longer the default theme on Windows 8, as Microsoft developers felt that interface designs imitating natural materials were becoming dated. Instead, the desktop interface incorporates elements of the new Metro design, which uses a flatter look with fewer transparency effects, solid colored window borders (designed to attract more attention to the content of a window), and fewer rounded edges.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Aero
Aero Theme is Bad, Disable It
http://www.petri.co.il/vista_aero_performance_issues.htm
It was resource intensive for the most part.
How dare you say it is bad!
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Anonymous
2013-11-22T13:52:41+00:00 I really wish they would put the transparency checkbox back in a newer version of Windows.
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Anonymous
2013-08-25T11:19:51+00:00 Feel ya brother!.
Why the f- did they remove it. Is there any explanation from Microsoft for this other than the power consumption?. i mean why couldn't they keep way for people to get it back, like a registry tweak or something. Also i hate tablet experience on my desktop and laptop. Why the **** do i want to use my small mouse pointer to click on those ugly big boxes? takes the whole screen for few icons. Doesn't it enough for people to have icons like in Photoshop?.
It's bad for desktops and laptops because of the metro thing. And bad for tabs because the old desktop is there. :(
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Anonymous
2013-08-07T10:35:31+00:00 So why pick on a feature that had mixed reception?