Microsoft Saying Goodbye to Aero in Windows 8

[sinclaj1]

DOS had a crisp and clean look. Think they'll go back that far?

 

[chibiwings]

microsoft might be deliberately pissing users on this windows 8 and they will release a new windows where users needs are added. just to get load of $$ tsk. tsk. history repeats itself

 

[eddieroolz]

I absolutely love Aero. I for one will hope that there'll be an option to turn it back on, because I just love the glassy effect.

 

[njt]

this is silly. microsoft is the only business entity that markets a new product by belittling and even deriding the capabilities of its previous ones; especially concentrating on their flaws, real or perceived. for those with long memories (or google) this has been the case with every single OS launch beginning with windows 95. of course, in the process, they also make fun of the people who bought such products.

microsoft has alwas been, and will continue to be, about whatever the current buzzwords are rather than a long term vision for their products. aero was a knee-jerk reaction to apple's then recently released aqua ui (and a poor one at that) rather than fulfilling an actual need, and now they're trying to fail in the portable/ultraportable market for the umpteenth time.

they are a graceless mastodon whose grasp on the markets they cover is slipping ever quicker, they are neither nimble enough to turn with worthwhile trends nor have vision enough to stick with a cohesive long term strategy. they're stuck in the middle trying to cover all the bases at once and failing more often than they're succeeding.

we may be beginning to see the end of microsoft's stranglehold, and by bob it couldn't come fast enough.

 

[captaincharisma]

Just be thankful the Windows 8 installation will include a DO NOT UPGRADE option.

yea just like the rest of them. its called declining the EULA

 

[captaincharisma]

Er... no. Vista ran like *** on the new PCs it was installed on. A mid-range 1GB XP box needed to have a 6~8GB Vista system to run decently. Back then, 1GB of DDR-400 RAM was about $100~150!

[/quotemsg]

errr...no i installed it on a intel core 2 quad Q6600 with 2GB of ram and a gefprce 8600 GPU and did not have any performance issue with vista even before any service packs. and of course windows 7 improved performance they always do in the later versions.

so you just proved me right. you tried to install it on your old cheap ass computer that probably had a 5 year old AMD CPU in it which would be worse than any celeron

FAIL

 

[hannibal]

[citation][nom]dado023[/nom]even numbers always sucked, exemplary: Win ME, Vista, and prolly 8XP is #5, was great, now Win #7 is its successor.....next waiting for generation of Win #9[/citation]

Who does believe that there is not Metro (some new grome of cource) in the win9... It is very unlikely... So there will be two bad windows after another? Well maybe people are more used to metro when win9 will be released, so it will be better ogain ;-)
But in reality does anyone finds out any reason why MS-would give up metro UI in their future windows releases? The only think that I can quess is that windows phone and tablet completely fail economically... The reason to keep Metro UI in win 9 and so on: Same user interface in you work desktop, in your work tablet, in you work phone...
It is guite camble by MS, but there is very few alternatives to customers. They can stick with win 7 with next 15 years or they abandon windows totally. When all programs are made to windows platform, the later is very unlikely.
Any more quesses about what will happen?

 

[captaincharisma]

Who does believe that there is not Metro (some new grome of cource) in the win9... It is very unlikely... So there will be two bad windows after another? Well maybe people are mored used to metro when win9 will be released, so it will be better ogain ;-)
But in reality does anyone finds out any reason why MS-would give up metro UI in their future windows releases? The only think that I can quess is that windows phone and tablet completely fail economically... The reason to keep Metro UI in win 9 and so on: Same user interface in you work desktop, in your work tablet, in you work phone...
It is guite camble by MS, but there is very few alternatives to customers. They can stick with win 7 with next 15 years or they abandon windows totally. When all programs are made to windows platform, the later is very unlikely.
Any more quesses about what will happen?

windows 8 isn't even out yet so how can you say metro will not be in it? the mainstream hasn't even used it yet so there is still a chance it will do fine enough to keep it around a while.

you think MS is going to listen to every halfwit on the net who thinks they are some kind of computer expert

 

[captaincharisma]

Wrong.



Wrong. Metro apps can only be installed from the Windows store.





Microsoft is innovating their way to irrelevance... or future computers will all be handheld and touch-enabled. People who do actual work on computers can't work on tablets.

you could have said the same thing about apple when they came out with the iphone and look how well the sheep took to that

 

[V8VENOM]

Windows 8 will be a flop ... tablets will be a flop. You just have to use history to predict the future -- I've seen MORE negative pre-sales comments on Win 8 than I saw on Vista and look how bad Vista flop. Fact still remains that dominate OS is still ... drum roll ... WinXP. History has also show very limited interest in Tablets ... we had Tablets long before iPad, they had very limited use and today is no different.

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

iPad sales have started to level out and hit their saturation potential so "doing what Apple do" is a big mistake. Tablets and iPads will NEVER match the performance of a Desktop nor even a Laptop. Tablets and iPads are too big to really be a great "in your pocket" mobile device. Tablets and iPads are less flexible and less powerful than Laptops, yet both offer the same portable experience. And what "little" interest there is in the Tablet market has already been consumed by iPad.

I've heard people say the like to sit on the couch and watch Movies with their iPad/Tablet ... so that 55" LCD 3D TV is worse than a 9.75" iPad display?? No, it's just someone who purchased a iPad/Tablet trying to justify why they bought it.

Apple have OSX for desktop and laptop computers and they have iOS for iPad and iPhone -- iOS is touch, OSX is not touch. Two different operating systems aimed at two different platforms. OSX wasn't handicapped because Apple had Mobile devices ... Windows 8 is being handicapped because of mobile devices. That's it in a nut shell.

Windows 8 is going to be a serious financial mistake and it might even be the final chapter for Microsoft.

 

[pocketdrummer]

"You never go full retard"

Apparently Win 7 starter edition was the ultimate edition after all. Lets just bring back DOS, it was the cleanest and most crisp of them all by that logic.

Microsoft got it right with Aero. It cleaned up the window by allowing it to fade into the background. Pertinent information was brought forward because it was solid. Not to mention it gave some sort of purpose to the wallpaper apart from giving you something to look at when you're doing nothing. Win8 even removes that and replaces it with the appallingly ugly "start" menu with featureless "apps" that no power user will EVER want to use.

Win 8 will surpass Windows ME in user hatred. Mark my words.

 

[captaincharisma]

"You never go full retard"

Apparently Win 7 starter edition was the ultimate edition after all. Lets just bring back DOS, it was the cleanest and most crisp of them all by that logic.

Microsoft got it right with Aero. It cleaned up the window by allowing it to fade into the background. Pertinent information was brought forward because it was solid. Not to mention it gave some sort of purpose to the wallpaper apart from giving you something to look at when you're doing nothing. Win8 even removes that and replaces it with the appallingly ugly "start" menu with featureless "apps" that no power user will EVER want to use.

Win 8 will surpass Windows ME in user hatred. Mark my words.

the hatred for ME will always be the worst. windows 8 is built on windows 7 which is really stable. windows ME was just a highly modified windows 98 that was the buggist and most unstable version of windows in history

 

[pedro_mann]

I usually read the whole article, but the opening line is painful. I don't usually jab, but I must. METRO is ugly, pointless and retarded. How long can I stick up for a company that is so clueless. The reason why you are so popular is because of legacy support joined with innovation. How hard is it to leave the old interface in? This is all a lie, it is more about killing your core product so you can flog wares in the app store. Admit it. For this you will lose. Others already do this, and better. You need to stick to your strength and add innovation.

By the time MS realizes it was time to fire Ballmer, the company will join the likes of Novell.

 

[belardo]

[citation][nom]captaincharisma[/nom]so you just proved me right. you tried to install it on your old cheap ass computer that probably had a 5 year old AMD CPU in it which would be worse than any celeronFAIL[/citation]
What part of English did YOU NOT understand? The damn computer came with Vista. It ran like pure shit. Brand new comptuer. Soon afterward, they started selling PCs with 4~8GB of RAM to make them usable. 4GB of RAM was SUPER expensive compared to today. $200~350 vs todays $20~40 kits.

The fact you said 5-year old AMD that is slower than any Celeron proves you are... well, an idiot. Anyone in the tech field knows that AMD was on top during the Netburst era (Pentium IV).

Yeah, so what if Vista ran on your Q6600 setup? It shouldn't require that much hardware for basic users. XP Ran better.

 

[Guest]

Windows 8 is 100% CRAP AT ALL!!! you know M$ makes a cool Windows on every 8 years. XP was awesome, Vista was blaaaah, 7 is great, 8 is crap.
I'm waiting for you Windows 9!! XD