time for a hot take: i think windows 7 honestly looks really ugly, the wallpaper and taskbar look awful, vista definitely looked a lot nicer imo

enabling aero glass and changing the desktop wallpaper makes it look a lot nicer (though, still very dated)

what really pisses me off is, if you turn on the small taskbar, the windows orb is still bigger than the taskbar. who decided this was a good idea, it looks horrible

here's another hot take: i really like the way the newest versions of internet explorer look from a UI perspective. i wish you could have the tabs next to the URL bar in modern web browsers, it saves quite a bit of space.

@mjdxp yes!! i think there's some firefox userchromes that give a layout like that if you want it