I was reading an article from the LA Times about Windows 7, and it seems that no articles about Microsoft can be unbiased.
I don’t know what consultant (probably a committee) advised Microsoft that everything had to be tinged with baby blue, but it gives Windows 7 a vague, messy look.
The other color choices, if you can find them (Windows 7 does not make changing the appearance easy) are just about as wishy-washy.
Apple’s Mac OS X operating system, by contrast, has a crisp, architectural look that’s much more pleasurable to view hours on end.
Note that despite what was claimed, getting to the appearance settings in Windows 7 takes only two clicks: right-click on the Desktop, then click “Personalize”. Since Macs don’t have right-clicks, I guess the author really had no idea what to do. The author also calls the screen design “ugly” in another section of the article.
I wouldn’t mind this if it were an editorial article lambasting the aesthetics of Windows 7, but an article in the Business section of a paper shouldn’t have Apple fanboy undertones.