I will not bother you anymore about this. Your logic is very sensible. The higher ups at Microsoft could have had a start button update that was like Start8 to correct all this. But they refused. Pretty self destructive and company destructive. The Cupertino crowd (gay Apple bon vivants) prolly had lots of good laughs over these MS blockheads refusing to do a simple start button correction on Win 8 for the “legacy” crowd
Spoken like a gentleman (as Monty Python would say). Thanks. :)
> Your logic is very sensible. The higher ups at Microsoft could have had a start button update that was like Start8 to correct all this. But they refused. Pretty self destructive and company destructive.
Yep. That would have avoided some of the mess, though as I said above, the "Start Button" is only the tip of the iceberg. There's the entire "Start Menu", and all the navigational tools that are part of it. I would have made a Win7-like desktop the default, and let the Metro stuff be an option. The folks who wanted gaudy Play-Skool tiles could have them, and the rest of us could get work done.
I should emphasize that the Metro tiles DO work really well on a small handheld mobile device. On a multi-touch touchscreen I rather like it, in fact. Problem is, desktops don't have touchscreens.
My personal diagnosis of the debacle is that Ballmer's echo-chamber marketing crowd got themselves convinced that a) gaudy Play-Skool tiles were the wave of the future for the desktop as well as the handhelds, and b) Microsoft could force anything down their desktop users' throats with impunity. Both assumptions were incorrect.
> The Cupertino crowd (gay Apple bon vivants) prolly had lots of good laughs over these MS blockheads refusing to do a simple start button correction on Win 8 for the “legacy” crowd.
Yep. And not just laughs -- the Apple crew watched in glee as Mac computers and devices experienced a considerable increase in popularity as people shunned Windows 8 machines.
Well, onward and upward into the new world of Windows 10...!