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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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You are the conservationist, as I see it. Aero was brought into the world to make it modern. Metro is the same stupid graphics from the 50's really, Windows 10 looks like a hospital
At least hospitals have green colorful trees and looks professional.
It's always a battle. Those used-to-be-luddites are now saying 'bottom rail on top.'
Screw Metro.
#aeroforthefuture
But honestly, average Microsoft users are PC nerds. PC is 'outdated' (so called). Therefore...
So true, Metro sucks. PC MASTER RACE!!!
“Beautiful Aero Glass effects”? Who says its beautiful? Personally I can't stand it.
But then that's just a matter of personal preference. I tend to be a minimalist… just like some people are by nature conservative and others liberal. You might as well argue that a Gothic revival building is more beautiful than a Frank Lloyd Wright building; or vice versa; or Picasso vs. the Pre-Raphaelites.
I went from what was to my mind the clean look of Windows 2000 to the hideous Play-School Luna theme of XP, and replaced it with Classic immediately, and have continued to do so ever since. Clean, lean and mean… that's how I like it. I don't even have a picture as a desktop background, just plain MS blue across three screens. It's far less distracting. Even on my Linux computer I tend to go for Xfce or LXDE rather than some of the other other eye-candy offers, and both my Windows and Linux computers have enough grunt to run plenty of eye-candy.
Most of the discussion here seems to be about the hated Windows 8, and I didn't like the new Start screen either; so I brought back the Start button (there were plenty of third party apps) and banished the Start screen forever. The Windows Classic theme hasn't been available in Win8 or Win10, but with Win10, it's so close that I really don't care.
However I do agree that if you actually like Aero Glass, and your computer can cope with it's demands, and if you can put up with the schizophrenia of not having it on other Windows devices with lesser resources, then that should be your choice and it should be available.
