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Naru41 | 8 months ago

This style of simulating faux-realistic materials (such as glass or aluminum) on the screen looks dated and cheesy now -- (Windows engineering team 2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120614042824/http://blogs.msdn...

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sixothree|8 months ago

They really took that idea a little too far especially considering they never executed it even more than half way. We still have control panels that are using their pre-2012 look and feel.

dgellow|8 months ago

Looking back at this article, Windows 7 UI was really peak Microsoft