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Other than the square corners, nothing about Aero Glass in Windows 8 appears to be any different from Windows 7.

It appears bigger than the default theme in Windows 7, but perhaps having the buttons squared as well as the window borders just gives it that illusion.

Actually I love the fact that they squared everything. I hope it stays like that. I hate rounded borders on anything.

Actually I love the fact that they squared everything. I hope it stays like that. I hate rounded borders on anything.

Agree 100%. I hate, hate, hate rounded corners. Mac OS X is the only OS I know of where they don't look like crap. I really hope the squares are here to stay. I'm going to hate it if they bring back the rounded corners by RTM.

And, as I pointed out in my own topic, I really like the improvements they made to Windows Basic. It was horrible in Vista and 7, but it looks great in 8. And it even takes advantage of the DWM! I would actually willingly use it over Aero Glass, since there is no performance penalty anymore and I really like its minimalism look.

and you go to the settings for them where lol

As easy as 12345 :p

  1. Open Weather Application
  2. Hover over the bottom left area
  3. Click Settings
  4. On right charm will open , choose weather settings
  5. Change to Deg Celsius :)

As easy as 12345 :p

  1. Open Weather Application
  2. Hover over the bottom left area
  3. Click Settings
  4. On right charm will open , choose weather settings
  5. Change to Deg Celsius :)

when i click on the blue box that says weather it doesnt do anything, am i missing how you open it? or is mine broke?

As easy as 12345 :p

  1. Open Weather Application
  2. Hover over the bottom left area
  3. Click Settings
  4. On right charm will open , choose weather settings
  5. Change to Deg Celsius :)

oh wow , i feel stupid now :blush:

didn't know that work differently on different application/pages

One big difference is that Aero works in vm's now!

Aero Glass has been supported in VMware Fusion since v3, so both Vista and 7 machines could have it.

The improved Windows Basic theme uses the DWM, though.

Lets flaunt our screenshots :p And its my request to you all that lets have this thread even for the beta , rc and then later stages, it will be nice to see how Windows 8 developed through time in this thread.

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bogas04, you absolutely have to tell me where did you get that clock picture!! :woot: my brother has been looking for that picture in a desktop size for long and could never find it!!

Is it one of Win8devpreview backgrounds now?!

(thanks)

bogas04, you absolutely have to tell me where did you get that clock picture!! :woot: my brother has been looking for that picture in a desktop size for long and could never find it!!

Is it one of Win8devpreview backgrounds now?!

(thanks)

This wallpaper is from Windows Personalization Gallery

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PS : My desktop has horizontally inverted picture :p (i do that on purpose , i like objects/source of light of right side)

This wallpaper is from Windows Personalization Gallery

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PS : My desktop has horizontally inverted picture :p (i do that on purpose , i like objects/source of light of right side)

Here's the link to the theme's page: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/echoes-of-the-past-theme

this is my version... it looked better before i started changing it more to help some dude who asked me for X hex like alt+tab thing

of course i found new hex codes and then i changed it to pink for my hex code tests but im lazy to fix it, but it doesnt look that bad

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