Re:Windows 8's Achilles' heel: Metro applications
by ak217 on Saturday July 14, 2012 @12:34PM
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XP's interface was horrible after the last possible minute, too. Aero is great though, but, hilariously, from what I understand it's being thrown out in Windows 8.
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Re:Windows 8's Achilles' heel: Metro applications
by PJones on Saturday July 14, 2012 @01:43PM
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My understanding is that it's only Aero Glass that's being canned, that being the smoked glass effect transparency on everything. Presumably it's a battery life thing, since even bargain basement onboard GPUs can handle it performance wise these days.