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For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu
jones_supa writes "By reinventing the Start Menu in Windows 8, Microsoft has caused some resistance to the new Start Screen. For those longing for the classic way of doing things, Stardock comes to rescue. The Start8 is a piece of software which replicates the functionality of the button and menu found in previous versions of Windows. Supported is starting applications, the Run and Shutdown features, and search."
Stardock, please bring back the Win3.x Program Manager!
i kinda understand why Microsoft taking this stance on start menu, they need to get the Metro UI on desktop so that developers will make applications for Metro, and in turn it will help the Win8 Tablets gain massive apps in short period of time
Why would a desktop user want to run a Metrosexual app that's designed for a tablet?
Notepad is not an editor. It's a second clipboard....
Check your premises.
I know, right? I'm trying to imagine how the hell people are having such difficulty navigating the fucking start menu and for the life of me I can't...
If you can't navigate the extremely simple and easy to use start menu on Windows 7, get a fucking Mac already. I know kids with ages in the single digits that can utilize a Windows 7 start menu perfectly well using all the various methods for navigating to and opening a program. The problem obviously isn't Windows 7 if a person can't...
I would actually have to agree that might be a decent improvement in Windows 7. It sounds like they copied QuickSilver. Can't run OSX without it. :) OK, OK, you could, but QuickSilver makes launching apps trivial, and you never have to leave the keyboard.
"Key board"? What's a "key-board" on His Chosen System? Is that anything like the almighty touchscreen? It doesn't have buttons, you know, which makes it better. Or is...
Oh, wait, I remember. Wasn't a "key-board" one of those heretical things deprecated by Saint Jobs decades ago, which led us out of the Dark Age Of Productivity and into the glorious Age Of Media Consumption? Why are you bringing that old thing up? Are you a heretic in the disapproving glare of Jobs? You know people like that are almost as bad as the heathens who think some part of His Divine Interface can be improved in some way. I'm just glad you're not one of THOSE, else you would need a visit from the Black Turtleneck Squad. Now, what's "QuickSilver"?
I have a friend in his 50ties
Did he get smothered by his ties?
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