[citation][nom]BigMack70[/nom]Here's my question: what does removing the start button entirely, even as an option, accomplish for a desktop user? Answer: nothing positive. If the goal is to eventually phase OUT the start menu, then disable it by default in Windows 8 while still leaving it as an option, and then in Windows 9 (or w/e it gets called), remove it entirely if people aren't using it.Their approach on Windows 8 is to force feed change to users without establishing any merit to the change other than "because I say so". And obviously Windows store + steam are different things. I personally don't want to see any app store bundled/coded into the OS.[/citation]
Well, I know. But after over a year without it i don't really care about the menu, it doesn't give me anything more than the star screen. I like the search function in the start screen a lot better than the one in the start menu, but with that said, there is nothing else with the start screen itself that gets me to use it. But i like the other ways the new UI goes together with the old one, for example how you connect to a wireless network.
I have to agree with the change thing, it's not always a good thing to force change upon someone, but sometimes it has to be done. I have heard that when Windows 95 came out, they said that the UI was unusable, but I'm not old enough to know... But I've got this quote from someone about Windows XP: "This new version of Windows is going to be a disaster. It will be completely rejected by businesses, who will stick with old versions even after Microsoft drops support for them.
And its new interface is so hideous and unusable that customers who are forced to use it will trip over themselves finding ways to restore the old Start menu".