Article: Why Microsoft killed the Windows Start button

[Cabalo]

You can view the page at https://filesharingtalk.com/content/1...s-Start-button

[mjmacky]

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[duke0102]

It seems like they know about the heavy criticism but are burying there heads in the sand and saying "we're right, you're wrong". I paid for Win 7 and a won't be buying Win 8 with Metro unless forced like with the DirectX shenanigans.

[eyekey]

yeah... no start button..i wouldn't take that crap for free.

[Appzalien]

I detect a hint of truth here but I believe it was probably an in house "awesome adoption of pinning [applications]" that would have gone something like the following.

1. MS employee's are required to adopt Win 7
2. MS notices employee's still using the start button
3. A memo goes out to stop using the start button and use pinning instead
4. A questionare is passed out asking employee's if they are still using the start button
5. For fear of reprisal the employee's lye

I find it hard to believe that any MS Corporate Goons go around watching users not using the start button except in house, so this explanation seems weird if not a total fabrication or at the least a very generalized pool of users.

If people don't want the start button why are they complaining so loud? Stupid Microsoft Corporate Goons!

[Xbox_360]

Yeah this just does not add up at all. First it's a very tiny button, so what if a lot of people don't use it? Here is a thought let people enable or disable it, don't just take it away. I do not pin stuff at all it just looks messy, and now instead of a button you have to go to the Metro screen which is made for touch screens. I have 8 preview on my netbook and I hate Metro a lot, it is more of a pain to use it with a mouse and keyboard then a touch screen. What they should be doing is allowing people to turn on/off Metro and the start button.

[attackdog]

I like my start button, I don't like to pin things. I have one thing pinned which is Firefox.

[manker]

All this talk of the all-important start button has made me realise that I don't actually use it much.

I decided to stick with XP a while ago because I didn't like Win7's start menu layout.
It used to be that I relied on it but I guess at the time I didn't realise that I've got so used to XP - after however many years - that I have pinned everything I use regularly to the shortcut menu next to the start button and use that instead.

It makes sense, to me, to use that shortcut menu rather than navigating the start menu because it's quicker.
Perhaps these chaps at Microsoft are on to something, after all, and perhaps people are resisting because no-one likes change unless it was their idea.

I've got a touch-screen PC that I hardly use, so I'm probably going to give Win8 a go once the 0day monkeys have worked out the bugs for Microsoft.

[mkil5]

Well looks like I will be staying with W7. We don't need Microsoft "Apple'ing" their stuff up.

[Homer_S]

Windows 8 only makes sense for a touch screen, I'd wait for Windows 9 when they get it right. Stick with Windows 7 unless you have a touchscreen, that's what I'm doing. Except for work, I'm thinking people here roll their own PCs anyway.