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[–] Icy-Defiance 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

MS made one bad design decision with a fullscreen start menu. It's not even bad enough to qualify as an annoyance. It's just not quite as nice as the old one. But swarms of people who despise change in any form are using it as an excuse to hate Win8.

They're probably the same people who refused to upgrade from XP because they thought Aero was ugly or something. Those people were/are funny too.

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[–] forthe48 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I agree that the fullscreen start menu was a bad decision because it shocked a lot of people, and Windows 8.0 was a release with some really nagging issues that needed to be addressed, and that got it a lot of bad publicity very quickly. When Windows 8 was released, I was right there with everyone that didn't like it, refused the change, etc.

But after a month or two of use, I really got used to it. I don't use a start-button replacement, and I never did. My PC boots straight into the desktop, and the 'new' start menu works like an awesome quick-launch software. I keep shortcuts to some of my favorite/most used applications there so that they don't crowd my desktop, and if I want to launch something like the calculator quickly, all I have to do is hit the Windows key, type calc, and press enter.

I've tried the Windows 10 developer preview, and it seems like it's going to be pretty cool. I'm excited for it to come out, and I think the new-new hybrid between new and old start menus will strike a nice balance with everyone.

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[–] Icy-Defiance 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yeah I don't replace the start menu either. There's a setting to make it go straight to the program list instead of the pin board, and I enabled that along with booting to the desktop. It's a shame they're not enabled by default, though, because most people don't dig through the settings and look for that kind of thing.

Windows 10... They've tried a couple things in the dev preview that I didn't like, such as separating the search box from the start menu, but at least that one got reverted later. The hybrid start menu and windowed universal apps seem like the core new features, though, and both should be awesome.