Win 9 and Aero rumour.....

opethdisciple · 27 Aug 2013 at 13:21

So rumour has it, with Win 9 Microsoft will be bringing back the Aero interface....

Hopefully this means they realise they will continue their downward spiral for as long as they insist on Metro being the way forward!

Sliver · 27 Aug 2013 at 13:49

Why is Aero returning a selling point ? I never used it on Vista and viewed it as nothing more than a gimmick. Win7 minus Aero and UAC FTW !

paradigm · 27 Aug 2013 at 13:59

Actually, if you were disabling Aero, you were getting much lower performance out of your desktop experience than you would have been with it enabled. This is down to the way that modern video cards handle 2D. Enabling Aero enabled hardware 3D rendering.

Secondly, if you thought that disabling UAC is a good idea then you are clearly in no place to talk about what makes an OS good or bad.

Finally, Aero is still present in Windows 8 (look at your taskbar, it's translucent), it's just not referred to as Aero any more, but still renders using the WDDM, and by enabling WinSAT.

Sliver · 27 Aug 2013 at 14:06

paradigm said:
Secondly, if you thought that disabling UAC is a good idea then you are clearly in no place to talk about what makes an OS good or bad.

Did I say that I'd disabled it ? No. The inference from my post was that it was annoying, something that I put with.

I also never disabled Aero, I simply didn't use it.

Win7 is the OS that Vista should have been.

paradigm · 27 Aug 2013 at 14:11

You never disabled Aero, you simply didn't use it?

How does that work then? Did you run the PC headless? :confused:

Sliver · 27 Aug 2013 at 14:17

When I say that I never used it I should have been more clear. Obviously It was running, but I never used that stupid stepped window selection function that was stamped onto the task bar. It was just a selling point at the time that was advertised everywhere, but in the real world was of little or no use. I'm glad Win7 went in the right direction and just dropped what was clearly a silly idea.

paradigm · 27 Aug 2013 at 14:25

Dropped it? It was still there [WIN]+[TAB].

Aero isn't just that "feature". That was just Aero "flip", there was also Aero Peek (hover over a window in your taskbar to hide all others, or hover over the "show desktop" button), and the transparency/shadowing effects on windows.

Sliver · 27 Aug 2013 at 14:33

Yeah but they dropped UAC which was my main bug bear. Aero was just subtly moved.

paradigm · 27 Aug 2013 at 14:44

They didn't drop UAC at all :confused:

It's still there, in Vista, 2008, 7, 2008 R2, 8 and 2012 (as well as 8.1 Preview and 2012 R2 Preview).

"Aero" hasn't been moved (how could it be, it's the desktop rendering engine).

Really not sure you have a clue what you are blithering about to be honest.

Sliver · 27 Aug 2013 at 14:52

paradigm said:
They didn't drop UAC at all

It's still there, in Vista, 2008, 7, 2008 R2, 8 and 2012 (as well as 8.1 Preview and 2012 R2 Preview).

"Aero" hasn't been moved (how could it be, it's the desktop rendering engine).

Really not sure you have a clue what you are blithering about to be honest.

Of for gods sake stop twisting everything I say to fit your argument.

I no longer get stupid UAC messages every time I want to do something in Win7.

Sorry if that offends you. But that is one of the reasons I prefer Win7 over Vista.

And you're a fine one to talk about 'blithering'. Jeez.

paradigm · 27 Aug 2013 at 15:04

I haven't twisted anything, you said UAC was dropped, and Aero was moved. Neither are true.

Sliver · 27 Aug 2013 at 15:09

paradigm said:
I haven't twisted anything, you said UAC was dropped, and Aero was moved. Neither are true.

I meant UAC does not pop up a message every time you install etc. That was very annoying. Win 7 gives no such annoying messages. And aero is no longer stamped on the task bar.

You know exactly what I was talking about you're just being pedantic. Well crack on and have fun nit picking everything. I'm leaving this frankly boring and un-informing discussion.

Wizzkidy · 27 Aug 2013 at 15:27

Sliver said:
I meant UAC does not pop up a message every time you install etc. That was very annoying. Win 7 gives no such annoying messages. And aero is no longer stamped on the task bar.

You know exactly what I was talking about you're just being pedantic. Well crack on and have fun nit picking everything. I'm leaving this frankly boring and un-informing discussion.

UAC doesn't give you a pop up unless your local administrator of the workstation it only required elevation if your a normal user :confused:

It has not been "dropped" and is still a major part of the OS

I read the thread and thought paradigm was answering correctly, you made it seem like it was removed from Windows 7 and it has not been!

Anyway Windows 9 Aero...big whoop

mrk · 27 Aug 2013 at 15:27

Good because then I can finally buy my next OS and not bother with Windows 8.

My Win7 is the same install since day 1 of release, still runs like new.

gareth170 · 27 Aug 2013 at 15:41

it's just a rumour, nothing official.

tbh i'm not bothered about Aero

Deleted member 77746 · 27 Aug 2013 at 15:48

I heard Microsoft is closing down from 2015

.... don't believe all the rumours...

robinbredin · 27 Aug 2013 at 16:16

Microsoft are getting a new boss next year, anything could happen.

Glaucus · 27 Aug 2013 at 16:18

robinbredin said:
Microsoft are getting a new boss next year, anything could happen.

Not really, market sales and predictions, means they have to go on. Tablets will be outselling desktops by then. Then there's the money from the store. Anyone who thinks they will do a u-turn really needs their head read. You may not link it, but the market shows how important mobile devices are.

Even if you think this rumours are true, it doesn't hint at any upturn. It's not a start menu, it doesn't mean metros going anywhere etc.

Aod · 28 Aug 2013 at 04:20

paradigm said:
Actually, if you were disabling Aero, you were getting much lower performance out of your desktop experience than you would have been with it enabled. This is down to the way that modern video cards handle 2D. Enabling Aero enabled hardware 3D rendering.

I've actually found that disabling Aero results in substantially smoother video playback when using DXVA and smoother web-browsing in all browsers, regardless of system specifications and software load.

Destination · 28 Aug 2013 at 07:55

Sliver said:
I meant UAC does not pop up a message every time you install etc. That was very annoying. Win 7 gives no such annoying messages. And aero is no longer stamped on the task bar.

You know exactly what I was talking about you're just being pedantic. Well crack on and have fun nit picking everything. I'm leaving this frankly boring and un-informing discussion.

You are the uninformed.
Uac is alive and well in windows 7 and working as it should, and only gives annoying messages when programs install, or programs are run which can have direct core effects on your system, or programs are badly written.