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| Thread ID: 126155 | 2012-08-11 01:16:00 | Windows 8 ... again | Agent_24 (57) | PC World Chat |
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| 1293990 | 2012-08-11 01:16:00 | "While I'm on the topic, what is Microsoft thinking with its new Metro start menu? The Windows 7 desktop still exists in Windows 8, but where previously you'd click the start button or press the start key and get a neat Start menu bottom left with your recent apps and a search box, now you get a massive fullscreen app with huge flat shaded rectangles for each program, horizontally scrollable through multiple screens to fit all your apps in. It feels like Microsoft got so scared of Apple and the success of the iPhone and iPad that they invented a (quite decent) tablet interface of their own that was perfect for 7 - 10" handheld touch devices, but then in a moment of extreme stupidity decided it must apply to every Windows device ever made from that point onwards," he said. www.gamesindustry.biz |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1293991 | 2012-08-11 01:46:00 | Quite why they don't allow you to use the old style start menu I don't know. It is going to make businesses reluctant to move to it. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1293992 | 2012-08-11 02:10:00 | There is a program, called Start8 by Stardock, that'll give you a start menu | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1293993 | 2012-08-11 02:10:00 | Quite why they don't allow you to use the old style start menu I don't know. It is going to make businesses reluctant to move to it. I have installed the third party start button with the old style menu onto Windows 8 Release Preview. I much prefer using the start button than I do Metro. For Microsoft to include the start button in Windows 8 would be a huge improvement. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1293994 | 2012-08-11 06:41:00 | It also looks like Aero is gone. No Aero in the leaked enterprise edition. | sahilcc7 (15483) | ||
| 1293995 | 2012-08-11 06:47:00 | Windows users are a bunch of moaners, kicking and screaming into the future. I'm sure you all would still be using DOS if you had a choice. 6 months after launch you will all forget what all the fuss was about | plod (107) | ||
| 1293996 | 2012-08-11 08:16:00 | Windows users are a bunch of moaners, kicking and screaming into the future. I'm sure you all would still be using DOS if you had a choice. 6 months after launch you will all forget what all the fuss was about Baaa:D |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1293997 | 2012-08-11 08:44:00 | ...6 months after launch you will all forget what all the fuss was about Don't agree. When a product is no good, it's no good. Just look at what happened to Windows Me and Vista. Most people just rejected it. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1293998 | 2012-08-11 08:47:00 | And yet, there are more computers running Vista then all the macs ever sold.... Or so it is said. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1293999 | 2012-08-11 09:05:00 | And yet, there are more computers running Vista then all the macs ever sold.... Or so it is said.And look how fast people were willing to jump ship from vista to 7. |
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