Windows 10: Aero for Windows 10 very cool

That's the way it is. Anything that is built for speed had to take some "load" off. Not everyone can afford a fast, mean machine. I guess the logic there is if you can buy an expensive machine, you can also buy your own eye candy stuff to install.

 

We did and it is called Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate. Windows 10 better have Aero or I for one will not be handing over cash. I'll stay with 7 and my dual boot 8.1 Pro (looks like 7 as best as possible). I have the powerful graphics card and I would like the eye candy in 7 transferred over to 10. If anything PC's are even more powerful now that they were when 7 came out in Oct 2009, certainly the graphics sections are.

 

Yeah MS did. And I think that was a lesson learned. *Smile





Aero lovers can just hope for the best. Just like we, start menu lovers, did. *Smile

 

I agree completely,
The point is for the options to be present by default,
With those options you can turn Off all of the super slide crap if you want to along with the shadows....
It's basic customization which makes Zero sense to be removed and leaving people to third party's to get the options,

My first thought with win-8 was to wait for the hacking to begin this shouldn't be the way an user picks and installs an "upgrade" os *Smile

7 was great out of the box *Tongue
So the surface can't handle all aero effect = so what my laptop can and it's old *Biggrin

Aero / glass was sacrificed for battery life desktops don't have battery issue *Wink

 

Start Menu, basically the Start Screen only has tiles, so doesn't really apply.

 

No. Windows with Aero theme was always faster rather then without it, because it used GPU, I did a few tests to confirm it, when deciding, if I should use Aero on 7. Today many applications use GPU as well including a browser, because of that, Aero just added a nice smoothness to the user experience.

Pro and Ultimate are actually slower then Home Premium, because they have more processes, which cause more CPU/RAM/HDD usage. I have never understood, why gamers were buying Ultimate. *Rolleyes

 

Yep I never saw the need for ultimate either allot of bloat with just the language packs :/

 

Amen! Don't bring that crap Aero back...

 

I run Aero Glass for Windows 8.1 on Windows 8.1 and I don't see any sluggishness at all. I don't see any difference with or without it.

I agree with owensjc, I dislike the flat look of 8, 8.1 and now 10. Much prefer the beauty of Aero.

 

Although HP does not support over 16GB ram. Pro and above do. So there are extra processes, also somewhat depends on what else is installed on the PC. Not a gamer, just like the best OS especially when I got it for $15 through my former employer. Language packs are now on 8.x Pro as Ultimate got rolled into Pro. I honestly think desktop users with powerful machines should be offered the choice of eye candy. I (used to) know plenty of people who ran the Windows 2000 type desktop on lab computer as you did not want anything messing with what you are working on.

 

Hi there
actually I did like aero glass on Vista -- how can we get this to work on W10 -- is it possible --there was some reference to a GUI modifier but I haven't seen any google links.

However when I'm doing a Pro magazine or photo shoot gig I just like the plain old W98 or Windows 2000 background -- depends on what you are doing of course.

Themes should be easily switchable.

Cheers
jimbo

 

While MS does have a ton of cash, their resources are limited. Each feature set developed, maintained, and supported requires resources.

I agree for the most part with the sentiment in this thread - if a feature existed in a previous version, continue to offer it in the next version. Unless of course there are technical complications preventing that feature in the next version.

There's a balance between Ease of Use and configuration. Most users just want it to work out of the box, so a decision has to be made on what "out-of-the box" means - no customization/configuration and Window would still look ike Windows 3 *Wink

Too many customization/configuration options confuse most users.

There is no happy medium *Sad

Power users know where the registry controls features ... or know where to find the information.
3rd Party develpers make a lot of money providing alternative shells and applications.

But ... I do agree that the features should be easily configured ... I disagree that all features should be turned on by default. Which ones then should be on OOB? Since I tune most of the eye-candy off on my machine anyway, I'd vote that none should be on by default (DOS came in basic black, but you could change the window size, buffer size, text size ... why yes, you could even change the bg color *Wink )

Make sure you provide your feedback to MS.

I've asked them to join the forum - we'll see if a new member exposes ( *Eek *Shock ) themselves as a MS employee on the Win10 development team.

Bill
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I believe it's all the silly feeds/ live titles that are stopping windows glass from being offered at all,
Plus with the flagship device being the Surface battery life is a higher priority,

Microsoft problem in this theory is desktops do not have battery issues *Wink
So yes give us the easy to find options to turn eye candy on *Smile
Glass is what made win-7 look good otherwise it would of looked like x-p sp4 *Biggrin

 

And most desktops are not touchscreens. So I guess it all boils down to the ultimate goal of creating one unified OS for all devices.

 

Yea well the unified thing really hasn't worked out well for sells for either Microsoft or comp manufactures *Wink

No one said the unified stuff can't be activated by default,
The options do need to be available via conventional menus to activate glass or any of the other customize options included in w7
And yes there are touch screen monitors for desktops I don't know anyone that would like to be that close to a large screen though possibly they could use a stick *Smile