I would be surprised if they made Aero transparency available again.
There is problem with battery life.
If they make transparency available on laptop/desktops - then tablet users get a second class experience.
Uh oh - the answer is to remove it from both.
Thank you!
ps: Can you please return my Aero too, I've seem to lost that too!
There is a tendency to unify the interfaces, for example Chrome has this in mind as well (see the recent menu list spacing).
Touch will look like the desktops because the desktops will all look like touch.
Why I think those guys from AMD made the statement that DirectX 12 wouldn't be made anymore:
You know where this is leading? If your tablet isn't able to run DX11/12 then your desktop wouldn't run that either: not because it's not capable but because they don't implement that since is not needed on the table interface.
Sounds absurd to me as well.
Now let's hope I wrong with the three lines above.