I managed to make my Win7 look more like Win98. I really can't get used to Win7's UI and I don't think I can get used to Win8's UI.
Amazing, you know, how MS seems to want to add more "intuitive and efficient interfaces" (e.g. the MSOffice 'Ribbon' toolbar, the floaty Vista (then eight) Desktop-docking thing, and now Metro) in various iterations of its software... often emulating someone else's ideas of what to do with a UI but... Making it worse. I can use a modern Mac easily enough (though most of my serious Mac experience was actually always one of those classic Mac-in-a-box, often it being monochrome!) but when Windows add in something similar (or when misguided laptop manufacturers add into their Windows build one of those "hover around a screen edge and you get a scroll of icons" whatsisnames) it just gets in the way, and demands uninstalling or disabling for more (pro?)user-friendly operation.
Agreed. Let smartphones and iPads have their own UI. I have no idea why everything has to look like a smartphone. This is similar to my rant about Skyrim's UI design. What kind of a mindset is this? Who is the brilliant mind that first decided to copy something (which is suited better for touchscreen) to PC. I want to live inside that mind because that decision can only be made while on drugs.
"Guys. I got it. We'll copy the UI of the most selling stuff on the market."