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For Win9 we can only hope the UI gets new sane colors! Windows 95, XP, Vista/7 all had nice color choices for their time. The Win8.x metro colors look like cho
by frik 13y ago
For Win9 we can only hope the UI gets new sane colors! Windows 95, XP, Vista/7 all had nice color choices for their time.
The Win8.x metro colors look like chosen by a color blind person. Or to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Windows 1.0 by a retro color theme.
- dragontamer 13y agoWut? Did someone just praise XP's singular color scheme? I guess everything really does look better in hindsight. http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/windows-xp-color-schemes-never-were http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/windows-xp-color-...
- TillE 13y agoWindows XP had a perfectly nice "classic" skin.
- dragontamer 13y agoYou are clearly too young to remember the rage people had back then. WinXP was "Busy" compared to Win98. Those who wanted busier, more colorful schemes could always install a color pack or customize their windows as appropriately. WinXP released with basically one colorpack, and removed the option of going back to the older "classier" gray look from Win98 / Win95.
- plaguuuuuu 13y ago95 was pretty groundbreaking. Vista was nice tho. But XP felt a bit fisher-price even at launch :p The Win8 colors look like someone ate a color palette and then barfed it all over the wireframes. It's horrible