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Windows 10 Start Menu Wins IDSA Design Award
jones_supa writes: Despite some criticism, it turns out that the design of the Windows 10 Start Menu isn't bad at all, as a designer organization has recently decided to give Microsoft its own Digital Design 2015 award for the feature. In a description on their website, IDSA (Industry Designers Society of America) explains that the design of the new menu makes it easy to access files across platforms, as it comes brings together PCs, tablets, and phones. More, the Start Screen and the Start Menu look similar, so it's easy to adapt to the interface that suits best to your device. There are plenty of Start Menu customization options and if you have a look in the Settings screen, you will find plenty of choices to tweak the default look and feel. Live tiles can be removed completely as well.
Shouldn't live tiles be removed/disabled by default since they pose a security risk ?
I use Linux at home, Windows at work and I don't see the point of start menus. At. All.
Place me in a mental institution if you like, but I actually preferred the start screen. At least the start screen acknowledged that the new way of presenting programs as live tiles is hugely space inefficient and needs to take up the entire screen. Indeed, enlarging the start menu was the first thing I did. Then I made the mistake of using all apps. Once again, this is a feature that can use full screen due to the enlarged icons. The problem is that Windows 10 only allows you to enlarge it in one dimension. After a bit more fussing around, I simply gave up.
The new start menu may be great for some people. For me, it felt like a patchwork of features that were poorly thought out. Even though the start screen was much hated, at least it was relatively well thought out. The Windows 7 start menu was well thought out, and had the benefit of well over a decade of refinements. Taking the ideas from two well thought out ideas does not necessarily make a third well thought out idea. On the contrary, it has a huge potential to make a mess. At least Microsoft lived up to that potential.
Seems about as credible as that thing Homer Simpson won for being fat and falling in a hole.
yes, we now have confirmation that the ISDA is a bumch of clueless morons.
The Windows 10 Start Menu is an abomination that has almost none of the functionality of a real Start Menu (ie, Windows 7 and earlier) and all of the bad things of the Windows 8 Start Screen now crammed into a smaller space.
Bullshit. I haven't had to go to the internet once to find out how to do something on W10, unlike the abomination whack-a- mole administration method of Windows 8. I installed and started using and started supporting all in the same day. Can't ask for much more than that.
And lest ye call me a shill, look up my other posts.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
The Windows 10 start menu is actually okay, once you let go of wanting a carefully organized hierarchical menu structure. I realized that I was wasting time keeping the old Windows 7/XP start menu organized, so I stopped and used search and pinned a few favourite apps.
The old start menu is actually quite a bad UI when you have a lot of applications. The menu gets huge and you have to scan through it or remember where things are with muscle memory. You can organize apps into subfolders, but that just wastes your time and when you update an app it will inevitably re-create its start menu entries at the root again.
On Windows 10 there is an alphabetical list, but it's easier to just use search and pin your favourites as tiles. The old start menu has limited room for favourites and they are a simple vertical list. Windows 10 lets you arrange them in groups on a 2D grid, a bit like how people arrange icons on their desktop. You can now uninstall directly from any app icon too, which saves time looking for the uninstaller or opening the separate installed apps window.
I'm not bothering with Classic Start Menu any more, Windows 10 is fine. You can just remove the live tiles and use it as a launcher, much like a phone with organized home screens, or more commonly by simply hitting the Windows key and typing a couple of characters.
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And yet Android, a Linux OS, is still mega popular. More popular and more used on mobile than Windows ever was on the desktop. This is a post-PC world. Nobody gives a shit about your quaint little desktop computer.
Oh, give it a fucking break.
Do you eat shit anonymous coward? All those flies and dung beetles cannot be wrong. give it a try - it's really popular, so you should do it.
Desktops will always be around for people who actually do work. Not everyone will be a consume stuff only person.
And don't even try the retarded argument that you can serious work on a tablet or phone. You can ride across the country on a tricycle too. Not that anyone would want to do that.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.