The Redmond, Wash., software giant ultimately landed on a blue, green and silver theme called Luna. Microsoft referred to Windows XP as 'Whistler' prior to its market debut. Files refer to the theme as a 'Whistler skin with eye candy,' and are marked as 'for internal use only,' the report says. The theme uses a unique combination of depth through shadows, bright colors, translucency, rounded interactive assets and textures to create the appearance of liquid or gel sitting on metal plates.Īccording to The Verge, 'Candy' was present in early source code for Windows XP, with developers using the skin as a placeholder as they built out the operating system's theme engine. A number of UI elements closely resemble or match Apple's Aqua theme, a fact perhaps most apparent in shiny, rounded window buttons designed to mimic droplets of water.Īqua debuted at the Macworld Conference & Expo in 2000 and made its way onto Mac a year later.
One theme, dubbed 'Candy,' will be very familiar to anyone who has used a Mac running Mac OS X 10.0. Win Xp Mode Win 10Īmong a cache of Windows XP source code files that leaked online Friday are a variety of unused, sometimes incomplete, UI themes Microsoft created for its early 2000s operating system, reports The Verge. A recent source code leak reveals Microsoft built and tested a number of divergent themes for Windows XP, with one closely resembling Apple's legendary Aqua GUI.
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