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It's got what shareholders crave

Also, they don’t seem to remember that Mac OS X 10.2 used Aqua and glassmorphism in 2002 to match their iMac’ brand new translucent style 5 years before Windows Vista was released (2007).

Also, everyone hated the UI in Vista at the time.

Who's "he", and where did that quote come from? I only see an image, did I miss an article cross-posted or something?

EDIT: Apparently, it's from PCWorld.

Well, hopefully their opinion changed from "unnecessary replacement" to "replacement with degraded performance and unnecessary malware."

Copilot is literally the last nail in the coffin for me to finally switch. 365 has been bad for some time now, with copilot it's basically unusable

Didn't Vista get a ton of hate for its new UI?

Context I had no idea what was going on until I found this at the bottom of all the comments.

The exact same trends go round and round in web design too (and now apps).

At first things were square (because that was all the technology could do) then in the 2000s CSS exploded and everything went colour gradients and rounded corners, just because people could, then that became old-hat and everything went flat and square again, and then rounded came back (but without so many gradients)

Everything is cyclical.

And it's called Windows 11 to remind us of 9/11, because both are fucking tragedies.

I’ve only just now made the connection because of your post.

People spreading these memes most likely weren’t born before either release 😀

Yeah and odd they don’t see the fundamental difference between these, Apple was always “glass widgets on/in a solid rectangle”

Only on Windows were windows windows

I miss the glass and translucent looks, the flat boring look of today is very bleak and dystopian looking imo. Don’t miss vista though, that was what started my move to Linux (with Compiz fusion and as many of the ridiculous effects as my poor $300 laptop could handle).

I got tired of it in 2013. While it does work in some places (Android does it reasonably well), I haven't yet seen a good flat design on the desktop.

Windows 8 and 10 looked garish and hard to read, especially since everything is a rectangle with a one-pixel outline. Is it a button? Is it a text field? Maybe a thick progress bar? Who knows, they all look extremely similar.

While Apple did overdo it in the later big-cat OS X releases, I'll take a felt-textured widget panel and a calendar bound in leather over an endless sea of hairline rectangles.

I am definitely older (my first programming job involved a mac plus) and personally, I can't stand the flat look era.

Windows XP was the peak of Windows' UI.

There was the unreleased Windows “Blackcomb”, basically prior to Redmond seeing Apple’s Aqua, which was like a bit Windows 2000, a bit ME, flatness, outlines, square corners, and it could’ve been metro.

But resolutions and anti-aliasing were getting (slightly) better, so copy Apple, XP instead gets texture and rounds everything.

Vista was another interesting take, especially weird was the window controls. We are still living with those weird long controls with a margin below, but not above them, a lot of the time, even in flat land Windows 11.

Make way kid, I'm on my Gentoo flying through