August 5, 2025 at 10:48 am

Microsoft Throws Some Shade At Apple Over Their “Brand New” Liquid Glass Aesthetic

by Ben Auxier

Screenshots from Windows Vista

TikTok/windows

Have you heard? Apple introduced a delightful and elegant new software design. At least that’s how their press release worded it.

It’s called “Liquid Glass” and it does look something like what that name evokes. A lot of shiny, transparent layers being all sleek.

But you know Apple – half their inventions are inventions, and the other half are repackaged stuff someone else made years ago.

Looks like this is probably the latter, as pointed out by @windows on TikTok:

Screenshots from Windows Vista

TikTok/windows

“Just gonna leave this here,” reads the caption, over a slideshow of desktop screenshots from Windows Vista, a version of their OS that was released almost two decades ago in 2007.

Screenshots from Windows Vista

TikTok/windows

Looks pretty glassy…and liquidy.

Screenshots from Windows Vista

TikTok/windows

“Y’all good???” reads the description, though they stop short of mentioning Apple directly.

@windows

Y’all good??? #Windows #WindowsVista #WindowsAero

♬ original sound – Windows

It was a pretty good PR move.

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But does anyone really own this look?

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Literally every comment was a fight.

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Time for everything to revert to this style?

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Personally I don’t understand why people have such strong opinions about which Windows versions have been trash.

They’re fine. They’ve all been fine. Every platform has bugs. Relax.

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