[riddlemethat]

I’m imagining dozens of people worldwide sharing your nostalgia for Vista.

[Gigachad]

It's called frutiger aero now. Lot of people very bored with modern safe design nostalgic for when tech and UI was weird and bold.

[voidUpdate]

The funniest thing about the "frutiger aero" thing is that it looks nothing like how I remember vista looking

[Gigachad]

It’s the same idea but dialed up to 11. Apple’s Liquid Glass is a more restrained application of the style.

[darkwater]

Let a sufficient amount of time pass, and what people knew in their children/teenage years will be remembered with nostalgia.

[zaps]

“Good old Vista. People give it a bad press but I’m never upgrading, why would I? It just feels like a good pair of jeans.”

[devilbunny]

It wasn’t a horrible OS. It just broke XP’s “it runs on practically anything” before the hardware was really there. And 7 was, as we all know, the most perfect Windows has ever been. Windows 7 Media Center was a magnificent DVR and a great movie-playing box.

[hbogert]

This so depends on the timing. XP was a memory hog when it came out for that generation's hardwarw