The recent acquisition brought us new UI trends. It's a combination of microsoft phobia of the native widgets they themselves created and vendors masking their crappy program by heavy theming make-up. Windows 8.2 will use only bitmapped fonts:
The folder selection dialog is fortunately not the Win3.11 style, but it features abundance of empty space:
Common retry, ignore, fail prompts were also redesigned to convey information using graphical buttons:
Back now means "Retry" and if you want to continue anyway, you just click the disabled button. Nah just kidding, that's keyboard focus color. Only in the installer. In the PC Suite we of course use blue borders, except when we use nothing (checkboxes) or the grey shade (some of us liked the installer). Except when we use native controls.