Vista - UI elements worse in newer builds?

I only just noticed this, take a look at the following picture.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/uploads/...1143634675.png

On the left is the close/minimise UI icons from recent builds, and the one
on the right is an older build.

They used to look really lush, and had the outside glow stuff, now they are
just horrible, non glassy, and faded out. In the official UX guidelines I
think they have a massive scaled picture of the old style icons, too.

Whats going on!

Thanks.

Well, there's a possibility that they have the drivers, the hardware but not
the actual PixelShading software... but trust me, on the latest build, the
Glass effects are just as good (if not better) as they ever were.

Looks like a possibly tampered picture...

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"Tom Brickman" <TomBrickman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E26D7846-7A86-4C05-AD0C-C221690465D2@microsoft.com...
>I only just noticed this, take a look at the following picture.
>
> http://www.neowin.net/forum/uploads/...1143634675.png
>
> On the left is the close/minimise UI icons from recent builds, and the one
> on the right is an older build.
>
> They used to look really lush, and had the outside glow stuff, now they
> are
> just horrible, non glassy, and faded out. In the official UX guidelines I
> think they have a massive scaled picture of the old style icons, too.
>
> Whats going on!
>
> Thanks.

Well it seems to be somthing universally on all screenshots of 5230 (or
whatever it was).

they appear identical to me... one is on a dark background, one is on a blue
background..

keep in mind the buttons are semi-transparent... and will look much more
radiant on a bright blue background

"Tom Brickman" wrote:

> I only just noticed this, take a look at the following picture.
>
> http://www.neowin.net/forum/uploads/...1143634675.png
>
> On the left is the close/minimise UI icons from recent builds, and the one
> on the right is an older build.
>
> They used to look really lush, and had the outside glow stuff, now they are
> just horrible, non glassy, and faded out. In the official UX guidelines I
> think they have a massive scaled picture of the old style icons, too.
>
> Whats going on!
>
> Thanks.