Remember Aero Glass? Remember anyone that used it? Well, it will be back in Redstone 3, the Windows 10 update after the upcoming update, or at least that is what The Inquirer has been told. The headlines screaming that this is whole new Windows are a little far fetched, this is a work in progress GUI update, which one person describe as looking similar to the old Windows 8 mobile interface. We don't have much more detail apart from the fact that once again Microsoft will be messing with the way their OS looks, again. It can't always be a disaster, can it?
"Project Neon, the UI upgrade for Windows 10 has had its first leak courtesy of MSPowerUser, and it's absolutely gorgeous, even if you're a Windows cynic. Probably because it looks more like Google's Material Design for Android than ever."
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- Microsoft Plans Big Reorganization Of Partner and Services Groups Starting Feb 1 @ Slashdot
- Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio @ Slashdot
- Hands On With The First Open Source Microcontroller @ Hack a Day
- Google's January Android patch packet tackles Qualcomm and Linux vulnerabilities @ The Inquirer
- Windows PC spy nasty dormant for three years, mutates and resurfaces @ The Register
- 2016 – the year 3D XPoint came down to earth from Planet Hype @ The Register
It seems from this post you
It seems from this post you are implying that Aero was a disaster. I thought it looked great, but more importantly it pushed the rendering of windows onto the graphic card which dramatically improved the experience provided you had a gpu of basic capability. I was so glad, moving to Vista, to never see the repeating window artifacts from software rendered windows in XP again.
Honestly, I hate it. This
Honestly, I hate it. This may be because the majority of what I support are business machines with Intel IGPs.
I thought it was fun going
I thought it was fun going around to my friends’ parents’ houses and installing $40 graphics cards so they could enjoy Vista haha
What kind of shit backwards
What kind of shit backwards broke-ass company do you work for that they still use computers from 2003? even the IGP’s from core 2 duo era were much more than capable for aero.
Most major companies that net 1m+ in revenue/yr are phasing out ivy bridge machines already, all the way from plant side machines that control manufacturing/qa automation all the way to rack servers
You are in for such a
You are in for such a dissapointment when you reach the job market.
Avoid critical utilities and multinationals that have been around for a while or you are going to be in for the shock of your life.
I’ve been in the job market
I’ve been in the job market since 1993 but tell me more. You work for a shit low end company that doesnt have any funds, then yes, you’ll have many extremely old and long past end of life hardware running software that’s 8 versions too old.
Oh Hi, you’re running Lotus Notes v4.6? That’s cute.
The only hardware that old and still running (and has nothing to do with windows) are as400 mainframes running RACF datasets under zos.
But please, tell me more about how so many client end machines and controllers are running windows xp/xp embedded. The majority of those have been replaced and have been running windows 7 for a good part of 3 years now if not longer.
I’d love to see the business
I'd love to see the business case justification you used to convince the bean counters to invest in upgraded infrastructure or to pay a hosting company for said and an OS that isn't just 'best effort' level support.
This particular bunch of nitwits were full-year revenue of €1,785.3 million in 2015 and won't even consider using SSDs instead of HDDs for standard user machines, let alone replace servers deployed in 1998. The newest physical one I know of is from 2008 with a lower end Harpertown Xeon.
We did finally get rid of XP on almost all machines, but Aero is still not something I want to support in conjuction with things as old as Quancept.
The company I work for made
The company I work for made 2,665m LB sterling in 2015 (so ~€3700 with the 2015 median conversion rate), our datacenters are primarily dell 13th gen servers and other various infrastructure no more than 6 years in age, Testing Datacenters are 12th gen. There’s solid state storage everywhere. The oldest laptop that users within the company are still using (mainly remote field offices) are Latitude 6430’s and we’ve mostly remediated the majority of them. Desktops are 96% phased out, and were primarily 3rd gen 3010 & 7010’s which replaced 980’s and 790’s 7/8 some odd years ago. Hell, the last actual desktops that are actually in production use are some 9020m’s used in a few field offices for those employee’s that are stationary on phones.
Most of the employee’s are using Latitude 7450’s and 7470’s and a few 7440’s over 5800 client and machines deployed in Canada alone, 27000+ worldwide. The company is Building 2 new Canadian head offices GTA East, and GTA West locations within the next year, along with a lot of new datacenter infrastructure as well (one we begin moving into next month).
The fact your company hasn’t invested in newer infrastructure should be troubling to you. I wouldn’t doubt there is no business continuity investments either.
The last company I’ve ever had the pleasure of dealing with that used Quancept was Radio Shack Canada….. that will give you a hint of how long ago that was phased out. Even then, Areo would have 0 impact on Quancept, since its back end is unix based, and a pretty border wouldn’t kill the terminal emulator on a windows box. Try RTMWIN.
It’s not hard to turn Aero
It’s not hard to turn Aero features off in windows 7 and it’s still better than that flat crap of windows 8/10. Now make the adware, spware, cloud, and forcing go away and maybe it will get a larger user base that windows 7. Make that flat borderless crap go away and the buttons with no 3D or feedback! Even Intel’s mediocre graphics can manage that. The Windows 8/8.1 and 10 UI experience is so much like being blinded with that washed out/low contrast color palette and lack of visual cues in user interface. Get the hell out with those flatland features M$, and the other intrusive features that do not belong in an OS!
Aero was ahead of its time.
Aero was ahead of its time. It should have been added early in Win 10 though, as computers have already caught up by then. I don’t know why there was a mention of neon looking like Win 8 mobile when Win 8 itself and 10 both shared that look and Neon is starting to deviate from that.
Loved Aero….looking forward
Loved Aero….looking forward to it coming back. The ahead of the time comment feels semi appropriate.
Love Aero and one of the
Love Aero and one of the reasons why Im still running win7
I really hate the look’n’feel of Win10.
Why must Microsoft force the UI?
Why can’t there be user choice?
They call it neon and then
They call it neon and then proceeds to use pastel colors? They must be completely retarded in their marketing department.