[jazzy007]

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This should make a lot of crybabies happy . Your "crybabies" are Microsoft's customers. Actually designing your product to fulfill the needs and expectations of your customers is generally considered a good thing. Completely ignoring them makes them sad and they cry foul. (and get labelled crybabies by the ignorant) That this fails to get through Ballmer & crew's head over and over and over is as maddening as it is asinine. Microsoft is late to every technology party and they have been since the pre-Win9x days. But their paranoia over losing market share in markets they don't have results in brash customer hostile "innovation" every time. So, Instead of sticking to core competencies, again and again they bulldoze their way in to markets that are flourishing without them, try to own them and fail while dragging everyone else along in their chaotic wake. When they do this they also often seem to have an overwhelming compulsion to "fix" things that weren't broken. The hot new college grad junior VP de jour has a whizbang idea and they take a tool everyone was used to working a certain way and "make it better" causing endless frustration to users who would really like their jobs to be about doing their jobs and not about decrypting, unlearning, re-learning, hunt&pecking for lost functionality, figuring out work arounds ETC ETC ETC in the latest major modification of the tools that no longer works as they expect it should.

I remember some time ago that if you wanted to buy a Ferrari, it was a stick shift or nothing. Then Ferrari introduces automatic transmission. There was a cry far and wide of a automatic transmission on a Ferrari. Now, you cannot get a Ferrari with a stick shift. Not because Ferrari dictated that, but because poor sales, nobody wants one. People found out that automatic transmission was better and faster than a stick shift.

The same is with Windows 8. Many people now cry far and wide now (I notice is the same people crying about Windows 8) but eventually we will find the Windows 8 is better. Now if you want a Ferrari with stick, you going to buy a old one at over a million dollars. Maybe I can sell you a Windows 3.1 (back to basic) for a few thousand dollars. LOL

[jazzy007]

To all those cry babies and people that are going to Mac or Linux. Have you notice that with Windows, you can create, buy or get free a way to change your computer the way you like it? Try that with Apple. With Linux, unless you a geek that loves to tinkle with thing, it's not going to happen unless some geek have already did the alterations. BTW, make sure you have the same Linux version, because there is maybe 100 version of Linux and they are not all the same. Ha!

[anzablazer]

I've try to down this program and all I get is a 405 error page not found.

[Mary]

Thanks, very useful article. I like Windows 8 a lot and have searched for the best start menu alternative for some time. For me Start8 is the best, however I can also recommend FastKeys from fastkeys.vze.com.

Totaly different animal with many more capabilities. I like to have my start menu available whenever I move a mouse cursor to upper edge of the screen. Can't live without it.

[MJatPCWorld]

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I remember some time ago that if you wanted to buy a Ferrari, it was a stick shift or nothing. Then Ferrari introduces automatic transmission. There was a cry far and wide of a automatic transmission on a Ferrari. Now, you cannot get a Ferrari with a stick shift. Not because Ferrari dictated that, but because poor sales, nobody wants one. People found out that automatic transmission was better and faster than a stick shift. The same is with Windows 8. Many people now cry far and wide now (I notice is the same people crying about Windows 8) but eventually we will find the Windows 8 is better. Now if you want a Ferrari with stick, you going to buy a old one at over a million dollars. Maybe I can sell you a Windows 3.1 (back to basic) for a few thousand dollars. LOL

Looks like someone needs to go back to the days of MS-DOS (assuming you're old enough to remember using it). Windows 8 - Start Menu = step backward. The clever thing to do would have been to give the customer a choice during setup as to whether or not they would like one or the other, with an easy switch able to be used from the control panel!?! But NOOOOOOOOO, Microsoft have to get rid of something that has worked for 20 years, and now they feel it's a waste of time? Puhlease.

Ferraris on the other hand, need an automatic shift because of the insane revs they put on the engine in the lowest of gears. You wouldn't want to have the gearbox falling through the floor of your brand new ride now would you... Therefore it's a safety feature for all the boys who can't really drive as well as their wallets would have you believe.

PS: The majority of Linux users have both Linux and Windows installed. Not because they feel they have to, but because they can. Claiming that they have to lean on another geeks knowledge doesn't preclude them learning it themselves. Furthermore, the 100+ Linux distros all use fairly standardised code, and there isn't 100+ different types of them (codeing). For instance, Ubuntu is able to install Debian packages, just like Puppy Linux can... I know you don't care, because you probably don't have the wherewithal to learn it. Instead, be spoon-fed by the cranks at MS Inc. You probably deserve it.

[timeless]

i find it's really irritating to use Windows 8. Most of my friends gave up and installed back to Windows 7.

[RNR19952]

Just tried this menu and it is very nice for free