#Windows10 ? More like Windows 10 years ago! — Matias Duarte (@MatiasDuarte) November 2, 2015

Duarte is best known as one of the creative minds that ushered in Material Design at Google. The new design philosophy, which treats digital elements as if they had physical properties -- like shuffling pieces of paper on a desk -- now permeates almost all of Google's products and services. The aesthetic leap has been most apparent on Android, specifically with last year's introduction of Android 5.0 Lollipop. Windows 10, on the other hand, has been a chance for Microsoft to dial back some of its wilder experiments from Windows 8. It's had a mostly warm reception from the PC community, but there's some truth to the argument that it's hardly reinventing the wheel -- that's what most Windows fans wanted, of course. Duarte says he's "always liked (what) Microsoft was attempting to do with Windows 8 -- change the paradigm." We appreciated Microsoft's effort too -- it's important to try new ideas -- but we'll take Windows 10 over Windows 8 any day.

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