I consider Windows 2000 the top that Microsoft reached with regard to style (both look and feel). But you can choose "Windows Classic" as a style in Windows 7

I consider Windows 2000 the top that Microsoft reached with regard to style (both look and feel). But you can choose "Windows Classic" as a style in Windows 7 and it will not to be too different, although some thing may be annoying. For example, Windows 2000 was more keyboard-friendly. In Explorer, you edit the path on the top input, then you tab and you move between files. Since Windows XP that has been increasing, and its 5 tabs in Windows 7. Pratically unusable The control panel is not yet fucked up like in Windows 8+ but still you can guess the year in which the entry was written. On the other side, the start menu is better because you have a search field that works well (no web stupid web searches there).