The Windows Server 2012 and the Windows 8 operating system both have the same theme; a strange-looking motif that is rather like a squared version of the Windows Basic theme. It is strange on a server operating system that you would have this instead of a more serious Windows Classic theme as you would have seen in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. Why is Microsoft setting out to erase all of the good features in Linux and make even the server operating system use the Metro login screen which is retarded on a server? And the Windows 7 login screen that makes you type the domain as MYDOMAIN\username instead of having a proper text area to type your domain like Windows 2000. That is very annoying and should be fixed. But they want to force everyone to use the same tiled interface on the desktop and the Windows 8 tablet computers, that must be why they are selling Windows 8 Pro for such a cheap price. If they had left the Windows interface alone and just made Windows 7 better then it would be worthy of a larger price but now it will be quite a controversial Windows release and will make or break the team at Redmond WA for sure. In his book The Road Ahead, Bill Gates envisioned a future where the computer user would have a home attached to the Internet and all shopping would be done online and future students will be taking tests on the computer instead of with pen and paper.
That has come true, but he does not mention developers creating a mobile telephone interface for the Windows start menu and practically giving away the Windows operating system due to the risk of developing a whole new paradigm for launching applications. One thing that he envisioned was an intelligent agent that would reside on your computer and help you with your day to day work. The only thing that came out of that was the Clippy assistant for Microsoft Office. And that was annoying and nothing more. Noone these days bothers with that anymore. I am using Windows 7 right now; that is just perfect for day to day use; the Start menu is still present and there are no other annoyances like you get with Windows 8. The fact that the Aero glass theme is still available as well as the Windows Classic theme makes a huge difference when you want to customize your desktop or make it look like Windows 2000. The Windows NT 4.0 release was a fine operating system that did not need stupid window themes and a mobile telephone interface to make a worthwhile Windows OS. The same with Windows 2000. I wonder what Windows 9 will bring; will they remove the Windows desktop altogether and just use the Metro interface for everything? I guess that would harm compatibility with legacy applications, but Microsoft are pushing the touch screen interface on all Windows products; this is intended to push consumers onto the newer touch screens instead of a traditional desktop computer with a Windows desktop, icons and a taskbar that Microsoft have used since Windows `95.