Windows Vista 2022 Edition is another one of those “concepts” that enthusiastic designers propose from time to time as an alternative to Microsoft’s operating systems. And you will definitely like it. Of course, if you’re wondering why a company with huge resources can’t replicate them, you have to insist on what we said another time: to transfer this vision from images to “zeros and ones” in an ecosystem as gigantic as Windows is very complicated. .

Windows Vista 2022 Edition is a updating some visual concepts of the system using the latest design language used by Microsoft in Windows 11, ‘Liquid’ and ‘Mica’. And it’s very well done, as you can see in the pictures and video shown by designer Abdi4789 on DeviantArt.

It should be recalled that although Windows Vista was once described as “one of the worst” Microsoft operating systems, visually it was as ambitious as it was attractive, with the Windows Aero GUI in the foreground, which offered transparency in windows, switching between them, or a preview of open ones. The Windows Sidebar and its widgets were another new interface, along with Avalon, an API for drawing windows using vector graphics.

I have to be one of the users who liked Windows Vista a lot, although I admit that you had to have a high-end PC to run it and avoid operational instability on most PCs that simply didn’t have the necessary hardware. And that in terms of consumption, because it was even worse in companies and they simply skipped the version until Windows 7 came out.

It was a major complaint that was not unique (such as software incompatibility, annoying severity of security warnings, unvalidated OEM applications…), but visually it was – to my taste – the most attractive thing to come out of the Redmond headquarters.

On Vista’s Aero Glass, the designer includes modern concepts of Windows 11, a tweaked taskbar and Start menu, the return of widgets to the desktop, or revised applications such as a file explorer with a ribbon and multiple tabs.

And all this very well integrated, with attention to detail and consistency on every modern desktop, which the Windows faithful have been claiming for many years. We leave you with a video of this Windows Vista 2022 Edition to see if you like it. “Wow is back”.