How is it that no Microsoft app has transparency still?

[Cryio]

Lets say we have another month for the consumer release of WP8.1 Yet a lot of WP8.1's apps do not support transparency?

Skype, OneNote, Office, OneDrive, Office Lens, Xbox Music, Facebook ...

Shouldn't they get these ready by now?

 

[jasqid]

I was thinking the same of the Bing apps too.

 

[Kram Sacul]

Not all apps are going to/should support transparency. Variety is nice.

 

[MikeSo]

No, they should all support it and leave the choice to the user. I loves me some transparency.

 

[anon(5445874)]

Well, technically there are some. Sure they come with the OS, but they are MS Apps. Like Maps, it has transparency. Reading List also has it.

 

[Kram Sacul]

No, they should all support it and leave the choice to the user. I loves me some transparency.

If transparency is all that you want you can always install an app that will give you empty/fake transparent tiles to play with.

 

[xandros9]

If transparency is all that you want you can always install an app that will give you empty/fake transparent tiles to play with.

Its not currently possible for some I believe.

 

[MikeSo]

If transparency is all that you want you can always install an app that will give you empty/fake transparent tiles to play with.

Why would it be "all that I want"? I want a functional live transparent tile. The third party ones I tried for News and Sports were not live.

 

[byobg]

Not all apps are going to/should support transparency. Variety is nice.

Variety being nice is exactly the reason that all apps SHOULD offer a transparent tile, in addition to (not necessarily instead of) a non-transparent one.

 

[Cryio]

Transparent tile option on WP8.1 should be the same as flat design guidelines on iOS7.

In a perfect world anyway.