History Of Windows Visual Styles: Luna, Aero & Unreleased! 🖼️👀

[@Mickelraven]

Luna and Vista Aero are still my two favorite Visual Styles in Windows history!

[@MH117Vista]

❤️🌹👌

[@omegadavids6362]

Same but with Watercolor from build 2296

[@Generic_Handle4573]

@@LiveUIClient5048How is it superior to 7? Besides the taskbar it’s the exact same as 7

[@Generic_Handle4573]

@@LiveUIClient5048 barely difference

[@AbiRose539]

@@LiveUIClient5048hence why they said "BESIDES the taskbar"

[@CEO100able]

I remember the Luna and Aero styles since they are fantastic. All the prototype and beta ones look very interesting as well. Nice work!

[@slavalinchuk]

The flat style is depressing, I loved the Vista one the most

[@advmx3]

And it's not wrong to go to that route, but at least ALLOW us to change back to Aero. It's not fucking hard to add them visuals on Windows and enable/disable them on a configuration menu for the explorer.

[@Aranimda]

Aero and Watercolor are my favorites.

[@Galaxy.Windows]

yes

[@omegadavids6362]

Same...

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

I grew up with Windows XP these were the golden ages of my childhood when I was only 9 now I'm 31 and I am having age stress related issues of missing my childhood I hate modern society and I hate how it's ruining electronics for everyone I swear if there was a way to go back in time to your childhood and wake up in it I wouldn't complain about a damn thing.

[@WindowsXPMapping1]

Luna, Vista Aero, and 7 Aero are my favourite visual styles yet

[@MadafakinRio]

Microsoft, Windows, software design in general, and humanity as a whole, has peaked with Aero. Nothing else comes even close (especially the modern flat style). XP was also great for its time. Felt warm, familiar, and welcoming, yet also somehow modern (compared to the past OSes).

[@shiro3146]

yes, OS X Aqua,WIndows Luna and Aero is peak of Humanity in terms of Visual styles and Costumisability wich also coinside that youtube in the same era also very much customisable to the point where you can create cool or bad looking youtube page

[@lucasflachme]

@@shiro3146 Yes! I miss Aero so much. I've recently transitioned to Mac and iPhones and never used the Aqua style, but I really wanted it to look like that.

[@PhilipMurphy8Extra]

Great video, Always enjoyed looking at visual styles since they were first made for Windows XP.

[@WindowsOnWindows]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Fakeman]

2:55 actually looks like windows 7 that was skinned to look like vista.

[@WindowsOnWindows]

You might be right...VERY well spotted!

[@ThatRandomToast]

@@SGvagon There's also a "Shut down" button text.

[@ThatRandomToast]

@@WindowsOnWindows You could have used your virtual machines.

[@samuel-wankenobi]

@@SGvagonnah that is windows 7 with a vista skin not real vista

[@wardengamer374]

Windows Vista has smaller window control buttons than 7.

[@johnnycha]

Interesting video! Lots to learn about visual styles of Windows!

[@RhysticOne]

Keep these coming, I love this series just like I loved last year's! It really makes me wonder every day what's going to be today's topic!

[@WindowsOnWindows]

Glad you are enjoying them. 😁

[@defnotatroll]

Aero was soooo pretty for its time

[@juneru2]

Still is pretty to me!

[@HiroitoY]

Aero forever💪

[@LiveUIClient5048]

I HAVE WAITED MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THIS VIDEO

[@WindowsOnWindows]

Glad you liked it - haha!

[@le1er133]

Aero and metro was my favorites

[@prantik2006]

In my opinion, Windows Longhorn is probably the best Windows beta version. The interface, the visual style are way beautiful than later versions. It's so sad that it couldn't be a final release ...

[@LiveUIClient5048]

which build 5048>

[@prantik2006]

@@LiveUIClient5048 build 4074

[@LiveUIClient5048]

@@prantik2006 unpopular opinion: 4074 is overrated

[@shiro3146]

i must admit pre reset longhorn Visuals seems fun, especially that Prototype Aero

[@inqmusician2]

Windows 10 and 11's themes are literally named aero in the files.

[@IshChillY8T]

Luna, Win7 Aero, And Windows Vista Aero Are The Best!

[@hatsunemikuchannel2023]

1:43: I think i never saw those ones... Wow! 🤔🤔😮😮

[@HalfIdeas]

Should have mentioned the early style “mallard” this was named this as a decoy from the upcoming Luna style.

[@winelectronic101]

Vista Aero for the win.

[@itsjohn-wv8en]

0:40 what build of Whistler is this?

[@ThatRandomToast]

Mockup

[@ranchocommodorereef]

I'm wondering the same thing. It looks like a prototype of Luna tested on a beta of Windows 2000. You can see the files with date modified of January and February 1999.

[@techwithtyler20]

Windows 10 1709 and later versions of Windows, as well as some apps in Windows 10 1703, use the current visual style, Fluent Design, as well as leftovers of Metro and Aero Lite.

[@ThatRandomToast]

The default visual style for the Win32 part is technically still referred to as "Aero", just lacking window transparency (%systemroot%\Resources\Themes).

[@ThatRandomToast]

You could check out BetaWiki.

[@techwithtyler20]

@@ThatRandomToast That just proves it isn't too hard to add back translucent title bars--they added Mica to some of them in Windows 11 22H2.

[@legoboy7107]

@@ThatRandomToast And the Windows 8 Aero Lite style is also still fully intact in Windows 10 (and used for High Contrast), it's just the theme file is missing. You can get it to work simply by copying the "Aero" theme file, renaming it to Aero Lite, and changing a couple reference lines in the file in Notepad to restore the theme file, and the Aero Lite theme will be selectable just like any other theme and work perfectly, no third-party downloads or anything.

[@annekedebruyn7797]

Windows 7 still looks incredibly modern and cool.

[@_wouter52]

Somehow, I love the beta version of the vista basic style (the gray one)

[@LiveUIClient5048]

same

[@AK-mf1bo]

Bring back aero

[@OldSchoolRT]

Aero>>>

[@maxm.7423]

0:40 - Is it a real prototype or a fake? It already includes pre-final icons and dates back to 1999, although Gedeon Maheux from IconFactory said that they began working on icons only in July 2000.

[@itsjohn-wv8en]

Wait wait wait! So if that picture came from 1999 that means that Luna was being in the works prior to the Whistler project meaning that it was planned or even developed for Windows Neptune or Odyssey

[@Anonymous-oh4xw]

@@itsjohn-wv8en Neptune is more likeley than Odyssey, since the former was intended for home while the latter was for buisness.

[@tinxieyeah]

vista & 7 aero are my favourites

[@matthewpaulargall9102]

Luna for the win!

[@otetdotdmg]

i loved the vista aero... but my fav is the windows 11 fluent one :>

[@emirvmendoza]

Screenshot at 0:40 is dubious or sketchy. Where is it from?

[@LiveUIClient5048]

probably in earlier whistler builds (not default)

[@d9zirable]

It's a leaked mockup from 1999 (source: BetaWiki)

[@MalachCoolGamer2537]

That's the wrong picture that's not the real windows Vista that's the windows 7 transformed into windows Vista 2:56

[@WindowsOnWindows]

Thanks - someone else already noticed, too! Very well spotted!

[@MalachCoolGamer2537]

@@WindowsOnWindows you Welcome and Windows XP & Windows Vista & Windows 7 & Windows 8 & Windows 8.1 & Windows 10 & Windows 11 Are Both The Best Operating systems.

[@jrz.zrj1461]

Aero ❤

[@NaldinhoGX]

4:14 What a downgrade.

[@アアアア]

I still hope MS will bring back Aero in Windows 12

[@SpaltonTAG]

METRO SUX AND FLUENT SUX. LONG LIVE LUNA AND AERO

[@LiveUIClient5048]

fluent is good and every os to include luna or Aero has lost support

[@Kiki79250CoC]

@@LiveUIClient5048 Server 2008/2008 R2 and Embedded versions of Windows 7 are still covered by ESUs, so technically there's still OS that includes Aero currently supported. And technically by some way Windows NT 6.0 is still there (but not for long, as January 2024 will be the final Patch Tuesday for Server 2008, and thus, the Windows NT 6.0 platform). So Vista was supported in one form or another from November 2006 to January 2024, which is 15 years and 2 months of support.

[@LONEWLF]

Can't wait for windows 13

[@looc3Zz]

I don't need anytthing above W7.

[@winelectronic101]

I don't think they will do that. Microsoft has a history of a hate for the number 13. They jumped from Office12 to Office14 internally.

[@techwithtyler20]

@@winelectronic101 I also see them skipping 13 since they skipped 9. If they wanted to also skip 12 to distance 2024's release from the hate of 11, they would skip all the way to 14.

[@winelectronic101]

@@techwithtyler20 The problem is Windows 12 already exists, and it's a scam.

[@techwithtyler20]

@@winelectronic101 Not in such a way that would prevent Microsoft from using that name. This already happened with Windows 11.

[@jonisin5498]

want aero glass back !!

[@advmx3]

Actually Windows 10 and 11 uses Acrylic and Mica as their themes, which both are horrible. In Windows 11 especially there's a wide limitation of colors, a lot of them not being supported by Windows, and no matter wha tyou do and change, the colors don't give you the same transparency as Windows 7 or 8 did, it feels useless most of the time, and some colors works way better than others. Theming-wise, Windows XP had the most beautiful one after Windows 7. Aero in Windows 7 is a pinneacle of beauty and runs fast and doesn't use too much GPU. It's very well made and even today if you install Windows 7 on a PC, anyone who uses Windows 11 will look at it and say: Wow, this is beautiful, how can I apply this theme to my Windows? And guess what? You can't! I WISH Ms would just releade all older themings on new windows versions for free, as an option that you just change, reset the explorer and bam, you have wathever design you want. That would be awesome.

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

Older Windows is better than newer Windows the look and feel is the main asped Windows 8/10/11 are junk if I had an older gaming desktop I would still be on Windows 7 gaming on emulators rather than Steam I must admit. I will never let the digital occult win at any costs PERIOD under consumer rights of the customer rights of the customer there's just something amazing about going back to older versions of Windows even in the current year the Start Menu was simple and easy to lose but Microsoft HAS to make it more complicated than what it was if Microsoft wants to keep their reputation I highly suggest going back to the old route before they embarass themselves and make Linux replace Windows in the near future which still has classic and simple start menu themes.

[@FloatingLancaster]

Bro windows classic is actually windows standard, windows classic was actually a different theme

[@ThatRandomToast]

Check out BetaWiki for interpretation.

[@FloatingLancaster]

@@ThatRandomToast oh, then what was windows classic

[@DragonlordXV]

vista was the best

[@Lofote]

Luna was really really ugly for me. Childish plus the START button was ridiculously huge and screen width wasting. No idea, how you can like that :-o ... I always immediatly switched to Classic on XP. WIndows Server 2003 fortunately didn't bring Luna. Aero was ok. I liked Watercolor, it was really elegant. And I like the original WinNT4/9x/2000 design, also simple, elegant and really good to look at.