Weekend Open Forum: Windows 8 ditches Aero Glass -- will you miss it?

I said the above post in the sense that people used it whether or not their PC could handle it. It looked cool but affected performance for some people. But I dont think getting rid of it is a good idea.

<p>They're just changing for the sake of change, to avoid people saying that they're paying for Seven all over again. Whiny internet people succeed again.</p>[/quote]

If "whiny internet people" got their way, Metro would never be seen on a desktop, ever. Microsoft is desperately copying Apple in every way now - ignoring their userbase and pusing a "vision", limiting choice and being all-around jerks. Problem is, they don't have a zombie religion of customers so its going to backfire in a huge way.

I didn't mind the aero, I thought it looked nice. As for the lack of a real startbar/button, screw 8. M$ already lost me by making everything too n00b friendly and candy colored.

user choice... I'll stick with win7.

You should make an account.

Yes, I'm gonna miss the days when Microsoft was making sense....

I don't care that Windows 8 will suck. The problem is that Microsoft is heading in a bad direction, and in a few years Windows 7 won't be a good option ? same as XP when 7 came out. A lot of the software I'm using requires me to use Windows and to be honest, I really like Windows 7.

I don't get what's the deal with flat 2d-looking graphics... It looks like ****.

I preferred the classic theme in vista and windows 7.

The Windows XP of 2012? No thanks, I'll pass.

Sorry Windows 8, but you can't have me. Windows 7 has been too nice for me.

Microsoft seems to be forgetting that their greatest strength against Apple is that when the mass-majority of folks go into a Best Buy, Microsoft's OS looks familiar but Apple's looks alien (ameliorated by ubiquity of iTunes, iPhone, etc.). The more different Microsoft's OS looks, the greater the risk they have of folks making the switch to Apple.

They can take aesthetic chances--they must. But they must also be loud and clear about the ability to run whatever they create in "classic mode". E.g., I generally like Win7, but run Taskbar Tweeker so that the behavior of my taskbar remains "classic". There is no such freeware option for their ribbon bar on Office--I.e., to use drop down menus. As such, even after 3 years of having to use 2007 at work, I still hate it. I can get Office 2007 (2010?) free as a grad student, butI have so far passed. When MS stops supporting Office 2003, that's when I make my break to Libre Office.

I don't know if they ditched all of Aero, but oh Microsoft. There were so many problems with vista and 7 (even lawsuits) because existing video cards did not support Aero, and even I didn't upgrade one of my xp machines due to it, and now they ditch Aero. What goes around comes around. I don't believe I'll ever upgrade a paid os on any machine anymore.

Thanks Microsoft, for making the desktop experience an afterthought in Windows 8. Thank you so much.

There has always been the white background. Why has Microsoft never made a black background theme?

Because black was the color of DOS screen. Changing to a white background was moving forward from DOS.

I prefer aero too. with transparency I can clearly see if there's a window behind something. but I guess some developers will enable transparency in Win8 for those who miss the aero (think of aero enabler in XP).

The only way I surely wouldn't miss Windows 8 is if I had a bazooka. Who wrote the God damn thing, by the way?

...or its loyal customers, for that matter...

The new interface looks just awful. No contrast at all, it seems like a chaos of icons and text. A blind GUI designer surely is cheaper, but perhaps M$ should cut costs some other way. Their constant lust for change for the sake of change is a sign of lack of understanding of what they are doing. No sense of direction - let's try this, oh no, users didn't like it, let's try that, oh no, sales dropped, let's see what Apple is doing and copy as much as we can without being sued... A company needs to have a vision and believe in what it is making, but wait a minute, it's M$, they are not making anything, they are making money! If they could do more by growing potatoes, they would grow potatoes, they don't care what is it, as long as they can profit from it... And yeah, for Steam and Chrome any OS will do, even Linux. Why not just make a SteamOS and be done with it once and for all. Any professional work is done on Macs anyway... because when you work professionally, you can't afford a tool that is unreliable or even uncomfortable.

Does this mean I can run win 8 with my old computer/laptop? If I remembered correctly, one of the reason I upgraded my hardware was so that I can use all those FUN windows candy..so maybe we dont have to upgrade our hardware anymore to be able to use new windows..

Honestly I dont use window glass much often because it still uses a lot of ram..especially if I browse a lot of windows at the same time..I prefer using the classic theme..kept my system running stable for days of hard working..

Genuinely I still love win98 for its fast response...the only thing I dont like is when I have to wait long for a program to finish processing..tick tock tick tock..and prone to virus attack..

The new windows just have a lot of background processes