[blattimwind]

> Tiles and old-time Dialogs are in constant contention, the look in feel is at war with itself.

Many years ago MS made a book which pretty much said "Official UX guidelines" on the cover; later this was available in MSDN. It was actually quite good, though of course the OS never managed to adhere consistently. Useful advice for developers. Now there is only a short guideline with a mixture of different technologies and mostly focusing on tiny details, no big picture at all.

The change in these guidelines is reminiscent of the change experienced in the accompanying Windows releases.

(That being said, I'm baffled just how bad the default styling of Windows 10 looks. It reminds me of the flat styling available in 2000/XP [I don't mean the standard 3D 95 look]. And I was taken aback that someone somehow somewhere managed to actually make the Windows 10 start menu worse than the Windows 7 start menu, which was already laughably bad.)