If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7

Re:If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 by dcurtis on Thursday January 01, 2009 @08:18PM (#416863)

Windows 7 does, amazingly, have the same classic mode. When you switch to it, everything looks exactly like Windows 98.

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Re:If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 by mynameishere on Thursday January 01, 2009 @10:53PM (#417007)

Why is it amazing? It's a one-checkbox option to get rid of 10 years of candyland-style aesthetic mistakes. The underlying OS has nothing to do with transparent windows and pastels.

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Re:If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 by dcurtis on Friday January 02, 2009 @12:34AM (#417083)

For 99% of users, the OS is the transparent windows and colors and user flow.

No one cares about the "underlying OS" as long as the experience of using it is good.

The reason I think it's amazing is because they have managed to add all of the new effects/colors/transitions in Vista/xp/7 while maintaining compatibility with a UI that is ten years old.

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Re:If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 by dfranke on Thursday January 01, 2009 @10:19PM (#416978)

To hell with 98. They got the UI right with Windows 1.0. It was a tiling window manager, just like the one I'm using now.

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Re:If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 by jredville on Thursday January 01, 2009 @11:58PM (#417062)

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/20/happy-anniversar...

They were inspired by some of the things in Windows 1.0

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Re:If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 by ivank on Friday January 02, 2009 @08:53AM (#417315)

There are some differences between the 98 and 2000 look, but it might just be the default color palette. I would imagine it looks like 2000.

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