It was more that the transparency and gradients were attempting to replicate 'glass'. Why? What purpose does that serve? In the case of Vista, it was to show o

It was more that the transparency and gradients were attempting to replicate 'glass'. Why? What purpose does that serve? In the case of Vista, it was to show off the snazzy new GPU window compositing. In Window 7 it was inertia. Ah, no, but no practical purpose from the user's point of view. In fact, it actually looks pretty gaudy. I'm glad someone at Microsoft agrees.