But what's still weird is this... Take a look at the pic. http://content.zdnet.com/2346-12554_22-256914-5.html The entire UI after logging in has a different title bar and windowing theme . But why does that "Install windows" thing still sport the old Win98 windowing theme - the old dark blue fade?

And the desktop after login. Looks neat and less uncluttered. Yeah borrowed from KDE it seems :)

Again http://content.zdnet.com/2347-12554_22-256914-256960.html?se... I got damn confused here. Look at the title bar and toolbars of Paint and Wordpad. They look crowded like as if they are waiting with a "Hey! click me first" sign board. The old WinXP alignment of toolbars was better. As a WinXP and Linux user, I feel the toolbars very confusing and it sounds heavy & confusing.

And top-bottom fading of the windowing theme borrowed from Mac? Coz I've seen such a design in Safari and same with Mac

But overall, the UI LOOKS NEAT with light shades.

P.S:- @henning: You can understand it like this "start -> shutdown" as in "begin to shutdown". So that isn't a big problem anyway since start is now the windows logo :)