Windows 8 doesn't have Aero

[the.weavster]

talking to the computer and it talking back to you.

Siri, call me an ambulance!
OK, from now on I will call you 'An Ambulance'.

[Foz]

Lets pad it properly:
95 - Good but flakey
98 - Good
NT 4 - Good but restricted
ME - Flakey
2000 - Good but still restricted
XP - Near perfect?
Vista - Flakey until SP
7 - Very good
8 - Say what?

[Danilo]

AERO uses directX and is on modern computers (with modern Graphicards) faster as classic-desktop

It is just a new design, not the return to a classical non-accelerated desktop. Every Windows version
over the last 25 years had design changes.
It is hardware accelerated as well and without transparency it should be even faster than Aero.
The whole Metro thing with live tiles is hardware accelerated and smoothly animated. Of course
you can't see that in static screen shots. Windows Phone users already know what I mean.

[Zach]

Windows 98 YEAH
Windows ME WUA
(Windows 2000 YEAH)
Windows XP YEAH
Windows Vista WUA
Windows 7 YEAH
Windows 8 WUA

Its like those Star Trek Movies. Every second one is crap.

Your analogy instantly fails, because Star Trek II is the greatest Star Trek movie ever made, and VI is not close behind it. (No coincidence Nicholas Meyer directed both)

[Zebuddi123]

Windows 8 as with ubuntu unity is awful!!! looks terrible works terrible Yuk!!! Have run w8 in a vm and deleted within a day. The minute support for w7 (unless a vista maneuver happens to w8 and w9 has aero type interface) its a full switch to Linux. (debian or mint) ubuntu

Aero, we have amazing grunt in gfx cards today whats wrong with aero even better wobbly windows etc else we might have stayed with an matrox 8mb card lol

Zebuddi.

[codewalker]

Windows 8 as with ubuntu unity is awful!!! looks terrible works terrible Yuk!!!

That's exactly my experience and on a growing number of forums you can read this as well.
Ubunty went both irritating and less productive with the unity desktop, same thing
with the Windows 8 Metro desktop. A smartphone/tablet UI on a laptop or desktop ?
It's simply less productive and irritating. But hey, since we are in the middle of a
smartphone/tablet hype even Microsoft thinks that this is also the new user experience
on laptops and desktops. I don't know what it is but history seems to repeat it selves
and after every x os versions they lose contact with the user and how they really want
their user experience. Who really cares for fancy stuff, shiny windows, glossy buttons,
or a smartphone/table UI on the desktop ? It's only a cosmetic thing but doesn't add anything
to your work. In the end we want things to be done fast and easy with a desktop that explains
it's self with a few mouse clicks. Windows 7 should have combined the desktop of Windows XP
with Windows 7 with the new stuff of Windows 7 under the hood, so Windows 8
wouldn't be necessary for at least a couple of years. Oh we'll at least Linux Mint 12
delivers a succesful user experience with both Gnome 3 and MGSE on the desktop.
Let's see how Win 8 Metro is going to end.
cw

[xorc1zt]

classic look is also available on ubuntu 12.04



you need to install gnome-session-fallback

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/application ... -fallback/

[Warmonger]

Windows 8 does have Aero (so far). Here is a look at the Release Preview due to release June 1st.

[c4s]

Well in the blog post they said:

To complete the story, we updated the appearance of most common controls, such as buttons, check boxes, sliders, and the Ribbon. We squared off the rounded edges, cleaned away gradients, and flattened the control backgrounds to align with our chrome changes. We also tweaked the colors to make them feel more modern and neutral.

While a few of these visual changes are hinted at in the upcoming Release Preview, most of them will not yet be publicly available. You’ll see them all in the final release of Windows 8!

(Highlighting by me.)

[GWarner]

Suits me just fine, one of the first things I do after installing Windows 7 is turn off Aero. IMHO Aero is just a waste of system resources that I'd rather be available for things I want to do rather than just making Windows look "pretty".

To me the loss of the Start button and the desktop that has been there since Windows 95 is a far bigger "issue" than the loss of Aero which I never wanted anyway.

[IdeasVacuum]

Interesting article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/fina ... ag=nl.e539

[c4s]

It's funny how zdnet and all those other computer magazines mostly only have to say negative things about Windows and Microsoft in general - It really feels like their only reason for these controversial / enraging posts is to get some more readers...

I for example are very excited to finally try out Windows 8!
The new start screen looks like a great improvement - How I hate to browse through thousands of menus just to accidentally click on the desktop.
Same goes for the file explorer - It's much easier now to get to the options I want to and that ribbon can even be minimized.
Well, personally I think that Aero still looks nice but maybe they're right about it not being "useful" and up-to-date anymore. On the other hand Metro seems to be pretty well thought out and tidy.
What else do we have? Lightning fast boot up, new login screen, restoring functionality, new taskmanager, "storage spaces" etc. - All seems to be a great addition to Windows and pretty useful.

[IdeasVacuum]

How I hate to browse through thousands of menus just to accidentally click on the desktop.

Using XP 'All Programs'? You can change it to a single scrolling list ala Windows 7.

[Kuron]

Interesting article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/fina ... ag=nl.e539

Very fair "review".

As long as Windows 8 has downgrade rights to Windows 7, Windows 8 will be a success.

[heartbone]

Hooray!
We are coming full circle...Aero is a bizzaro waste of resources.
My apps can shine and sparkle and be transparent, but why do I care how they are started as long as it's fast.

Check.

Hi,
The more I read about Windows 8, the more I get this feeling
that Windows 8 will end up the same like Windows Vista.
Greetings
cw

Double check!

It makes no sense to use the same programs on so different machines.
A Desktop-PC is to work many hours at ones, not like a smartphone or a tablet.
For me: No compromisses on my Desktop-OS for useless support of micro-machines.

I think for business or professional PC User, Windows 8 is a no go.

You think?

Yes! Full circle baby...can DOS be next?

I love reading these old threads. Don't you?