Posted on 04/16/2014 12:33:36 AM PDT by kingattax
Continued support for Windows XP was discontinued by Microsoft recently, so many PC people may now be migrating over to Windows 8. One thing newcomers will notice missing in the latest version of Windows: the Start menu!
If you’re feeling instantly lost without the old Start menu, don’t worry; you’re not alone. Thousands of PC fans would argue that the Start menu offers a more compact, concise, customizable listing of programs and files than the tile-filled Start screen.
Microsoft scoffs at that idea. It points out that every time there’s a new version of Windows, there’s an instant spike in popularity of shareware programs that make it work like the previous version of Windows. Eventually, the public stops panicking and learns to trust the new design.
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W8 looks like someone walked into their kids play room and saw X-Box and Fisher Price toys and the kids said "daddy make us a computer like our toys".
My biggest anger is having to re-buy the same software each time a new OS platform comes out. This is monetary hostage taking as far as I am concerned.
MS has learned a new Con Game now it's called Apps Store. The software you once got with the computer for the life of it is now "RENTED" per year. I don't see businesses making the change to W8. Between the training time, incompatibility issues, and RENT, why should they? If a business is goiung top loose money why loose it to MICROCRAP when LINUX is free? MICROCRAP's edge with ease of use over LINUX is now gone.
I didn’t have a hard time getting the classic menu.
That is what I did. Not too hard.
I bit the bullet and bought a new machine with Win 7 pro 64 on it and am having very little problem switching over from XP.
I cheated a bit and converted my old XP box to Win 7 for a few weeks before this machine arrived, so I knew what the basic lay of the land would be.
Saved the XP image of the old machine and reloaded it, curmudgeon that I am. I like what I had on it and do not use it for Internet now.
Wife has a laptop with Win 8 and I want nothing to do with it, Classic Shell or no.
Yeah, well, every time you see a quantum leap in the hardware, MS has to figure out a new software solution to keep the information handling slowed down to a crawl on your old CPU.
“But what they did was to require the major resellers (Best Buy, Staples, OfficeMax, etc.) to ship back unsold Windows 7 packages as a condition of placing Windows 8 on their shelves.”
Die, corporate scum!
I know a retired NASA engineer that bought laptop with Windows 8.1 installed. A month later, he still couldn’t find his way around the stupid thing. He said he spent most of his time trying to find things, rather than accomplish any work. He was so frustrated and stressed that I was afraid he was going to have a heart attack.
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