Considering how quick easy it is to install a start menu in Windows 8, most of you are just full of hot air and want something to whine about. Sure, this should not be necessary. Sure, MS is literally trying to corner their customers in one of the most despicable ways reasonably imaginable for a software/OS company. However, the product itself is not nearly as bad as it is made out to be. It is actually pretty good and is better than 7 in almost every way except for Metro. Even with only Metro, simply using a quick launch and a few shortcuts means that you don't need to click any more often than you would need to without Metro. Heck, Metro also has the search feature, so for almost everything, the only way that you could use more clicks in Metro is if you use it wrong. Do I like it? Nope. However, I'm not going to exaggerate the problem and whine about it. Here are solutions. Do with them what you will be it use them or ignore them, but there they are.
Start menu programs include ViStart with ViOrb, Classic Shell, and many more.
Getting the quick launch back in Windows 7 and 8 is very easy and doesn't even need a new program. Just right click on the taskbar, click toolbars, click make new tool bar, choose the directory that you want for the quick launch shortcuts to reside in, right click on the new tool bar, uncheck show text and uncheck show title. You can now have a quick launch and a start menu. There is much more that you can do if you want to.
[citation][nom]captaincharisma[/nom]Vista was just a makeover. windows 8 is so different i don't think the windows name fits the new GUI[/citation]
Vista wasn't a make-over at all. It had huge under the hood changes. You don't really think that a mere make-over of XP would mean a new kernel, resource usage that's like half of an order of magnitude higher, and so much more.