Retro Start menu star Classic Shell heads out to pasture (developer abandons it, yikes!)

ComputerWorld ^ | Dec 4, 2017 | Woody Leonhard

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> Because times change, reality changes, evolve or die. Doesn’t matter if the new UI is good or bad, it’s what’s running the new stuff, it’s the direction the industry is going, you’re either keeping up or becoming a dinosaur.

At work, I agree. I use and support Win10 there, because, as you correctly point out, that's where the software is going.

My objections to the new UI are private, not professional. And at the point where I'm forced to cut over and abandon Win7 at home, I hope that Win10 will have "evolved" to a better place.

Incidentally, other than the UI, Win10 is a great, solid, operating system underneath. If not for the UI, I'd probably be using Win10 most of the time, for convenience. Who knows, maybe someday someone will graft Gnome onto it. :-)

> People have been insisting MS lost their way for over a quarter of a century. Apparently that is their way.

Yeah, you're right. The amazing thing is, they can stumble around like a drunk on a 3-day bender, bumping into things, falling down, picking themselves up again, and 90% of the world not only follows their stumbling path, but subsidizes it.

Ain't 90% marketshare just freakin' AWESOME? Ya can make any d@mn cr@p you want, and people HAVE to buy it. Where does a 900-pound gorilla sleep? Anywhere he wants.

I've used Windows as my main home system more years than any other, probably more than all the others combined. And I have a lot of hope that Microsoft will survive long enough to sober up.

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I think a lot of it is people just get used to whatever it the UI is. We really don’t know until a few years have gone by if a UI was good. People even found ways to keep the 3.1 UI on 95 and the Program Manager SUCKED. But people got used to it. I haven’t played around much with 10, I certainly don’t like the UI, but whatever. I’ve dealt with many different Windows UIs, a few Apple, even some Nix. They all have their things that I don’t like. Even the really good ones find some way to be annoying. Keeps the brain flexible though.