The problem with Win8/8.1 is this

[flexy]

This "design choice, it's entirely appalling, sorry it just looks like SHIT.
It's not ONLY a design issue.

I also notice a lot of "miss-clicks" now with that "design" because due the flat appearance sometimes it's not instantly clear what element belongs to what window when a bunch of windows are stacking over each other.

It wouldn't happen the first time I want to drag a window and simply click into the wrong "app". The color choices in Win7 didn't only look better (even if this was a matter of taste)...it actually made things easier on the desktop.

THIS (to cite someone else) looks in-fact like the graphics driver is broken. It shows well what priority the desktop plays for MS today: NONE

And as I said earlier, even in Win95 you had the option to set kind of a "pseudo fading" with two colors to at least visually emphasize window title bars.

 

[Ketchup]

Well, MS started getting us used to a "Pretty" GUI with XP, then took it further with Vista, and now we have ..... this. Hmm. Maybe they should actually start asking for customer feedback, since customers have better options than they used to, IMO.

 

[denis280]

This "design choice, it's entirely appalling, sorry it just looks like SHIT.

agree with that 100/%

 

[code65536]

Well, I, for one, like the clean, stately new look, free of the garish textures of faux glass or XP's Play-Doh interface.

 

[Imaginer]

Well, I, for one, like the clean, stately new look, free of the garish textures of faux glass or XP's Play-Doh interface.

Same, and I have no problems miss clicking a title bar to move things, because I usually mouse over the title text and drag that. I do miss the slightly bigger close, minimize, and maximize buttons in XP.

The Aero glass made title text very hard to discern and had no effect in anything. I am looking at the workspace in a window, the Aero glass is all periphery, and even then, if I need to take a look at the desktop, the 'show desktop' button in 7 and hot corner on the taskbar in 8 does this better - with another click all of your opened and non minimized windows appear as it was before.

And both 8 and 8.1 still allows one to arrange icons on the desktop space, but the Start screen, I find does this better with named groups, scrollable tile lists, emphasis with tile size, live tile information as what widgets did in 7 (but aren't visually persistent, freeing more visual workspace) and the Start screen again performs as if you click the 'show desktop' corner and seeing your icons versus clicking the now visual 'start windows icon' revealing your tiles that are essentially launch icon shortcuts anyways.

I since got rid of all desktop icons, sans recycle bin on my 8.1 computers. Made no difference as I seldom launch programs with desktop shortcuts. It is between using pinned taskbar icons for Opera, Media player, or most frequently the File Explorer.

 

[Virgorising]

it isn't faster, I've used both and every benchmark I ran like CrystalDiskMark or 3DMark Windows 7's scores were 10% higher.

It may boot faster, but the time until you can actually launch a program remains the same, and the overall OS in Windows 7 once its loaded is much snappier

add to that, the ability to disable UAC without breaking half the OS functionalities in Windows 7 is gold for meh

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