Windows 8 desktop interface to ditch Aero

Posted on Monday, May 21 2012 @ 20:48 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Tech Report delivers word that Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system will ditch the Aero interface, as the latest screenshots of the new operating system reveal flat windows with Metro-styled controls.
"Although we wanted the desktop to feel familiar," Microsoft says, "we also wanted to take some ideas from our new design language and apply them where we could." Translation: everything has to adopt the flat, neutral Metro look. Microsoft says we'll see part of the new Desktop UI in the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview early next month, but the final look won't premiere until Windows 8 actually hits stores later this year.


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