Windows 8 Secrets: New Desktop Theme

With tech enthusiast web sites from around the world continuing to leak Windows 8 information in the wake of the Release Preview, your intrepid “Windows 8 Secrets” co-authors offer a bit of color commentary about what you’re seeing and how these features will really work. In this new co-post, we look briefly at leaked images of the upcoming new desktop theme in Windows 8.

This week, Winunleaked posted a number of tiringly similar screenshots that depict the coming Windows 8 desktop theme that will replace Aero. As Microsoft previously promised last month in a mammoth Building Windows 8 blog post, the company decided to remove the Aero “glass and reflections” and “take some ideas from [their] new [Metro] design language and apply them where [they] could.” So the new theme features squared off window edges, new default white window chrome, and a less translucent taskbar.

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http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-secrets-desktop-theme-143447

 

[tcman50]

Microsoft is pulling a Snooki, simple and stupid

 

[sparky1]

I just don't know what Microsoft are thinking. This is simply awful. All the beauty and elegance of Windows 7 aero gone. If people don't like the aero translucent effect we have the choice to disable it in Windows 7. Why are MS forcing us to go backwards? As if Metro isn't bad enough - this looks like pure shite.

As it stands there is no way I'm going to touch Windows 8 with a barge pole!

 

[alphanumeric]

Less is more?

 

[tcman50]

That's not what she said

 

[stefalopod]

My best guess? It's a lot less resource intensive than Win7 aero -- I turn almost all of the fancy effects off anyway to get a shade more performance, and it looks like this theme is designed to save me the trouble.

Given that the windows 8 ultrabooks are selling speed, not having to render object opacity, drop shadows, and the transparency around the edge of curved corners on your fancy new high pixel density screen may just be a prudent trade off.

The theme does look a little sterile though. Reminds me of the inside of a hospital.

 

[Hopachi]

I also turn of transparency. It's not that important.
We'll just have to wait for the release and see for ourselves. A choice of color will definitely be available and white isn't the only option.

 

[FSeal]

I don't turn off transparency, only now I don't have that option. Yeah... that's "better".