Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1

Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by frik on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:57PM (#7518499)

For Win9 we can only hope the UI gets new sane colors! Windows 95, XP, Vista/7 all had nice color choices for their time.

The Win8.x metro colors look like chosen by a color blind person. Or to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Windows 1.0 by a retro color theme.

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by dragontamer on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:27PM (#7518739)

Wut? Did someone just praise XP's singular color scheme? I guess everything really does look better in hindsight.

http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/windows-xp-color-...

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by TillE on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @05:27PM (#7519181)

Windows XP had a perfectly nice "classic" skin.

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by dragontamer on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @06:34PM (#7519533)

You are clearly too young to remember the rage people had back then.

WinXP was "Busy" compared to Win98. Those who wanted busier, more colorful schemes could always install a color pack or customize their windows as appropriately.

WinXP released with basically one colorpack, and removed the option of going back to the older "classier" gray look from Win98 / Win95.

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by plaguuuuuu on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @06:43PM (#7519574)

95 was pretty groundbreaking. Vista was nice tho. But XP felt a bit fisher-price even at launch :p

The Win8 colors look like someone ate a color palette and then barfed it all over the wireframes. It's horrible

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