[ivanbernat]

I rather liked Aero and I never really found it to be cheesy. Compared to Win95 or XP it actually looked great! And this is what MS is about to do, go back to the "old" look without adding any value to it (and I have a hunch it won't be easier on the system resources too).

[dpark]

Microsoft isn't going 'back to the old look'. They're moving toward a simpler, flatter, more "authentically digital" look. The Windows 8 desktop doesn't look like the Vista desktop, but it looks even less like XP or Windows 95.