Windows Aero

In the "Personalize" section added to Control Panel of Windows Vista, users can customize the "glass" effects to either be opaque or transparent, and change the color it is tinted.

Use of DWM, and by extension the Windows Aero theme, requires a video card with 128 MB of graphics memory (or at least 64 MB of video RAM and 1 GB of system RAM for on-board graphics) supporting pixel shader 2.0, and with WDDM-compatible drivers.

[8] Larger icons and multiple font sizes and colors are also introduced with Aero's notification windows.

The Segoe UI typeface is the default font for Aero with languages that use Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic character sets.

The guidelines for Vista and its applications suggest messages that present technically accurate advice concisely, objectively, and positively, and assume an intelligent user motivated to solve a particular problem.

Specific advice includes the use of the second person and the active voice (e.g. "Print the photos on your camera") and avoidance of words like "please", "sorry" and "thank you".

[34] The name was coined by Sofi Lee in 2017, as a combination of Aero and the Frutiger typeface,[35] which was popular with corporate materials of the time.

A distinctive feature of Windows Aero showing "glass-like" window borders on Windows 7
Live thumbnails showing the Internet Explorer tabs on the taskbar
Flip 3D showing the current tabs by pressing the key combination of ⊞ Win + Tab ↹
Segoe UI font in Windows Vista and Windows 7 (top); Windows 8 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 10 , and Windows 11 (bottom) Windows 11 uses the font at the top on the taskbar's timer.
Aero Peek showing the Windows 7 desktop when the mouse is pointed on the "show desktop" button on taskbar
Use of Frutiger Aero in UI ( KDE Plasma 4 from 2011)