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Hidden within the morass of design notes and historical navel gazing there is one notable change: The final build of Windows 8, due this fall, will feature a rejigged, Aero-free Desktop (pictured ...

In a blog post, Microsoft director of program management Jensen Harris announced the change for Windows 8's desktop interface. Instead of the Aero-style glass effect that was introduced in Windows ...

From the poll taken last week, it seems you want and need three crucial things in the upcoming next-generation operating system, Windows 8. This was particularly interesting as it seemed more ...

Andrew Webster is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Microsoft has ...

Windows Aero, is an acronym for Authentic ... processes the GUI and the default theme in most editions of Windows 10/8/7/Vista operating systems released by Microsoft. On many blogs and forums ...

Somewhere along the way -- likely during Microsoft's switch from Aero theming to Windows 8's Metro design language -- Aero Peek's visual flourishes were gutted from the OS. This Windhawk mod ...

Microsoft has announced that it is to make some significant changes to the Windows 8 user interface, including dropping the Aero Glass effect that was first introduced in Windows Vista.