New windows colors?

I looked at the Windows Vista site, and note the headbar:

Here's Windows XP:




Here's Windows Vista:

Wasn't this the color used for the PDC toolkit cd's too?  I don't remember where I've seen this before.

The new "dark blue" sure looks a lot less "friendly" than the "bright" blue of XP, but I wouldn't say it looks better.

I'm telling you, black is the new blue!

"she needs to get in the kitchen and cook me some dinner or she'll be both..."

Not funny, nevermind.

It's an interesting change.

Is this a temporary color change to represent the fact that Windows Vista isn't out yet?

Or is it a deeper move to change the Windows colors to a deeper shade?

Notice that many of the themes Longhorn has had are the black "Slate" theme. That's certainly darker.

Michael Griffiths wrote:

Or is it a deeper move to change the Windows colors to a deeper shade?

We're familar that Windows NT6 is more evil than ever, but I doubt that's the intention, if it was it would be a "blood red" or something.

Great more shades of blue,  how much darker because  i can only see about a 1/3 of that spectrum.

Media Center 2005 blu is darker than the XP one. And I like more.

Vista seems darker al the way around, even the flag colors are different.

"The slight marketing change in color themes from Windows XP to Windows Vista is a part of a larger transition from 3.1-era light blue to the eventual black. This gradual change will mirror Bill Gate's gradual progression from Jedi Master to Sith Lord."

What, it's what you wanted to hear, right?

Bill Gates has always been a Sith Lord.  he was hiding it.  Allchin is his apprentice.  Ballmer is his general.

i do not know why but i need to think on these Windows 95 times when i see the Vista headbar

I think the color is supposed to look more professional

Programous wrote:

I think the color is supposed to look more professional

It does, but its also a rather sickly color. Some reddish shade (similar to the Office website) would have been better.