Windows 8 Aero Requirements, Updated Desktop Window Manager

to the Internet. The latest three screenshots have been posted by Winreview, a Russian news site. According to their information the Windows 8 rendering engine has been changed so that the Desktop Window Manager may use software rendering instead of hardware rendering which means that Windows Aero will run on many low end computer systems thanks to this change.

Microsoft seems to have removed the blur effect from all windows and all builds. The window borders are still semi-transparent but they are not blurred anymore.

The VirtualBox implementation of Windows 8 will feature hardware acceleration.

To sum it up. The Desktop Window Manager can now use software rendering instead of hardware rendering to make use of Aero on systems that do not meet the hardware acceleration requirements, and VirtualBox will make use of hardware acceleration.