Windows Vista was controversial for a lot of reasons, but the most transparent one was the strange hate for Windows Aero—the biggest visual revamp for Windows since Windows XP. Recently, with the ...

Over the years, Microsoft Windows has offered customization elements we loved. Some of the bits we loved aren't available anymore: desktop widgets in Windows Vista and the Windows Aero theme that may ...

It's hard to look at Apple's new "Liquid Glass" aesthetic and not think about Windows Vista, Microsoft's much-maligned OS which also touted transparencies and glass-like effects as a bold new vision ...