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
    2013-01-22T19:50:54+00:00

    Microsoft wants people to move away from the start menu and desktop, glass aero, gadgets, custom themes, startup and shutdown sounds and more cool stuff, honest,y Microsoft shouldn't do what they want, they should do what customers want. I might as well downgrade to windows 7 via Linux.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-22T20:18:35+00:00

    Ask to be invited:

    The Windows Experience Team at Microsoft is committed to making the Windows, Windows Live, and Microsoft Office experiences better for you. Much of what we do involves engaging with customers in focus groups, surveys, usability studies, and visits to customers' homes and workplaces.

    http://wfp.microsoft.com/

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-01-22T21:07:58+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

     

     

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    EXACTLY, Microsoft isn't supposed to get people to go in another direction and change their windows experience to what they think, they should help out the customers and make windows better for them, in fact most people still use windows 7, I doubt windows 8 will become more popular.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-01-22T21:35:47+00:00

    I don't work for Microsoft, I just copied/pasted the information written regarding Aero.  If you want a bigger say in the development of Windows, click the link I provided earlier for Windows Feedback, join the Connect website and get involved in testing Microsoft software(s), etc....

    Products currently accepting bugs/suggestions

     http://connect.microsoft.com/directory/

    Or, join Microsoft Development Network (MSDN)

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-03-05T16:59:03+00:00

    Utter idiocy to make PC users give up Aero glass just to try and make Tablet users feel better about the ugly stuff they have to use.

    I bought a PC for, Christ's sake,  I don't want a Tablet experience.  If I wanted a tablet experience I would have bought a F-ing Tablet instead of buying a brand new expensive PC.

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