Microsoft, for its part, has reintroduced some translucency across its desktop operating system in recent years, with Windows 11 featuring gaussian blurs and other advanced Fluent 2 Design System and WinUI 3 theming techniques across the platform. This is a marked departure from flat Metro design language, though it still not quite as transparent and glass like as Aero was back in the day, or as Liquid Glass is today. Thankfully, the mod community has stepped in to bring Aero back into Windows...
