Maximized windows in Windows 7
Taking a further peek at the leaked screenshots of Windows 7 M3 Build 6801 over at WinFuture, I noticed something that was confirmed at Windows 7 Engineering Blog. Window frames when fully maximized will retain their Aero Color, so if you select Red or Green as your window color, when a window is maximized, you will continue to see the color in the Title bar. I have my views on this change, first of all, I think its good that colors will retain appearance (fidelity), but for persons like me who prefer to keep the Aero Glass transparent, its going to be a bit distracting. Lets take a look at two examples:
Maximized window with Aero Glass Transparent – Windows Vista
Maximized Aero Glass (default blue tint) with Transparency – Windows 7
Now the immediate difference you will see in Windows 7, you can see contents on the desktop or the inactive window in the background. This I believe strays away from the original premise of Aero to make contents of the window be the main focus. Its nice to see the Windows Team continue to enhance the Aero user experience, but at the same time I hope new issues do not creep in that will cost users productivity. The theme itself has gotten a bad wrap as just being unnecessary glam that uses up too much system resources.
Its still early and I am just speculating on what is still not even Alpha yet. So, take what I say here with just a grain of salt.
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