Do you want Aero?

[TheGrantFitz]

I don't see how you can like that design disaster. If any window that holds a lot of content ends up behind the taskbar, the readability of the taskbar items goes down the drain. Well, maybe you like being able to read the text behind the taskbar as well as the text in the taskbar at the same time. There is also nothing fake about blur. Blur is just as digitally real as gradients, rectangles, and solid colors.

How can you possibly be reading items on a window when it's behind a 10 pixel taskbar? And why? I'd think you'd have to be clumsy to throw windows around and be a little strange to be trying to read what's on a window, behind a 10 pixel taskbar.

That was sarcasm. I like to have my windows to have light on dark test. When a window goes beneath the fully transparent taskbar, the readability of the text and icons that are on the taskbar is reduced. On the original blurred taskbar, the content beneath the taskbar would blur, so it would not interfere with the actual taskbar content.

The taskbar transparency is decent. Really, I don't shove all of my windows under the taskbar either.

 

[TheGrantFitz]

Everyone, Windows 8 is Windows 7 with a new name and look. Plus some add-ons. You can't sit there and tell me that you'd use vista over 8, (like I've heard several say)

 

[phailyoor]

How can you possibly be reading items on a window when it's behind a 10 pixel taskbar? And why? I'd think you'd have to be clumsy to throw windows around and be a little strange to be trying to read what's on a window, behind a 10 pixel taskbar.

That was sarcasm. I like to have my windows to have light on dark test. When a window goes beneath the fully transparent taskbar, the readability of the text and icons that are on the taskbar is reduced. On the original blurred taskbar, the content beneath the taskbar would blur, so it would not interfere with the actual taskbar content.

The taskbar transparency is decent. Really, I don't shove all of my windows under the taskbar either.

Well, it's not the end of the world, but it's definitely worse than a fully opaque taskbar, and also worse than the old taskbar.

 

[TheGrantFitz]

Aero has always been "ugly" to me, ever since vista, after my XP days. The metro look should've stayed in WinRT, but it's no big deal. I personally don't mind.

 

[ribbonnah]

aero was ugly but only ugly - win8 is not only ugly it's very straining to work with the GUI for me. no contrasts colours, all flat, it's hard to get what is content and what is menus etc., all white (eye burn at my big 27" screen). I absolutely hate it and I use it since RTM is released. I really can't believe this is released....

I like the metro idea so much, but it's designed so bad in detail. At the moment I really prepare myself to switch to a (hated) mac, I don't like apple, I like MS, but I can't stand the win8 desktop gui. I really would like to stay with win, if there was just a bit better balanced gui.

no win7 is no option, I like to go forward and only god knows what they do with win9.

 

[Kat]

Metro, and the Start screen, I can live with.

The removal of the Vista/Win 7/Win 8 CP eye-candy, I cannot.

My computer, MY MONEY, my choice!

WHY is that so hard to understand?

 

[z3r010]

Everyone, Windows 8 is Windows 7 with a new name and look. Plus some add-ons. You can't sit there and tell me that you'd use vista over 8, (like I've heard several say)

Honestly, given the choice between Vista and 8 I would pick Vista every time!!!

 

[kizo2703]

Honestly, given the choice between Vista and 8 I would pick Vista every time!!!

You stole my idea.

They could at least leave the original Windows Classic theme, I could live with it.

 

[TheGrantFitz]

Honestly, given the choice between Vista and 8 I would pick Vista every time!!!

You stole my idea.

They could at least leave the original Windows Classic theme, I could live with it.

Might as well use "7 aero" for the classic theme.

 

[phailyoor]

Everyone, Windows 8 is Windows 7 with a new name and look. Plus some add-ons. You can't sit there and tell me that you'd use vista over 8, (like I've heard several say)

Honestly, given the choice between Vista and 8 I would pick Vista every time!!!

Vista when fully patched is a completely solid OS from a technical standpoint. From a UI view, Vista had a few kinks where controls were not directly accessible enough(ex. hard to change screen resolution), but the overall UI is completely solid and really only slightly different from 7.

Vista just has a really, really bad rep because it was released on horribly underpowered machines. Also, Vista home basic with no aero glass--that really hurt the eyes.

 

[TheGrantFitz]

Vista had horrible machines, but after that dead OS came a great one.

Windows 8 will break the chain, it isn't bad.

 

[pparks1]

Everyone, Windows 8 is Windows 7 with a new name and look. Plus some add-ons. You can't sit there and tell me that you'd use vista over 8, (like I've heard several say)

Honestly, given the choice between Vista and 8 I would pick Vista every time!!!

Unsure why people cannot understand that Windows 8 is not for everybody. These graphical changes and fundamental shifts are not something that we can simply just look beyond. Many are simply not going to "get used to it".

 

[TheGrantFitz]

Everyone, Windows 8 is Windows 7 with a new name and look. Plus some add-ons. You can't sit there and tell me that you'd use vista over 8, (like I've heard several say)

Honestly, given the choice between Vista and 8 I would pick Vista every time!!!

Unsure why people cannot understand that Windows 8 is not for everybody. These graphical changes and fundamental shifts are not something that we can simply just look beyond. Many are simply not going to "get used to it".

They won't get it, but Coke Robert does, check out his profile.

 

[pparks1]

^ what do you mean, his page?

 

[TheGrantFitz]

His profile.

 

[TheGrantFitz]

Did you like Luna better?

 

[pparks1]

I honestly couldn't tell you what Luna even entails.

What I don't like about Windows 8 is the start screen, the tiles for launching things, the lack of the start button menu system, the full screen applications (which just make me shake my head), and an interface that is more bland and boring than OSX.

As far as Coke Robot goes, he's so over the top and gaa-gaa over MS that I cannot hardly even take anything he says seriously.

 

[TheGrantFitz]

I honestly couldn't tell you what Luna even entails.

Pparks1, what do you mean by "entails"

 

[pparks1]

I don't know what Luna consists of. Is it a color scheme, is it a design, etc. It just doesn't mean anything to me when you say Luna. It's just like I cannot say exact what Aero means, but I know it has 3 dimensionality, tranparency, rounded corners and looks a hell of a lot better than the super drab and boring windows we have in Windows 8. It's like Mac OSX, just even more boring.

 

[phailyoor]

I'll actually say that I want transparency with blur("glass"), but not Aero. Rounded corners and the stripes in win7 and vista did look quite silly. I really prefer "authentic" looking transparency such as what was seen in the RP. In the end, though, I would pick the 7 look over the 8 RTM look.