Full Start menu back with Windows 8.2

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/10/2013 09:54 AM | source: | 133 comment(s)

Paul Thurrott reports some good news for desktop users who feel spurned by Windows 8 and aren’t satisfied with the changes made with Windows 8.1: Microsoft is working hard to appease them. The most important change, as Thurrott hears it, is that Microsoft will finally be bringing back the full Start menu to the Windows 8.2 desktop mode.

Unlike the current Start button that Microsoft added to Windows 8.1, the new Start menu will be much more like the one Windows users have known and loved since Windows 95. Thurrott also says that the new version of Windows will allow for Metro apps to run as floating windows on the desktop screen, something that users can only do right now if they’ve installed third-party applications such as ModernMix.

Thurrott says that while these changes alone may not be enough to make hardcore desktop fans happy, it’s still “a good sign” that Microsoft is “continuing to do the right thing and responding to complaints.”

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Pill Monster

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#4721015 Posted on: 12/10/2013 10:04 AM

Microsoft is continuing to do the right thing and responding to complaints

Too little, much too late. If MS had done "the right thing" they would have listened to end users at the start, not months later while in damage control mode.

Congratulations definitely not deserved imo.....

Hopefully this whole debacle will have a positive impact when 9 is released......that's one good thing that may come out of it.

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#4721019 Posted on: 12/10/2013 10:14 AM

I wonder how much does this have to do with leadership changes than being reactionary. All they're doing is returning the Windows 7 start menu and implementing "ModernMix" into the OS.

Knowing MS, these options will be hidden and not presented as options on first start/detection of hardware.

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#4721020 Posted on: 12/10/2013 10:16 AM

Too little, much too late. If MS had done "the right thing" they would have listened to end users at the start, not months later when they are in damage control mode.

Congratulation defineitely not deserved imo.....

I disagree.. This change will likely continue in future iterations of Windows.. Let's face it, even Win 7 will someday be obsolete... Better late then never..

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#4721023 Posted on: 12/10/2013 10:21 AM

i dont see the problem

I'm using Classic start menu, before that i used start8. One app download and you good to go

If those apps weren't available, i would stay with WIN7. Now i have 0 problems with Win 8.1 :pc1:

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#4721026 Posted on: 12/10/2013 10:26 AM

I disagree.. This change will likely continue in future interactions of Windows.. Let's face it, even Win 7 will someday be obsolete... Better late then never..

Not sure what you mean, this is not about the life of an Operating System.
It's about a company too arrogant to listen to what it's customers desire and using poor marketing tactics (read: DX 11.2, Tiled Resources) to force upgrades onto users.

This is exactly what happened with Longhorn and DX10.

Btw u may surprised at just how many systems still run XP.

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#4721035 Posted on: 12/10/2013 10:45 AM

thank you so much!

now thats what I wanted to hear all that time!

now tell me when is windows 8.2 will be out and i will go grab me one!

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#4721036 Posted on: 12/10/2013 10:45 AM

Can we uninstall the Metro crap? I'm never going to use any of those ****ty apps.

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#4721053 Posted on: 12/10/2013 11:18 AM

That's a great step forward but the giant leap would be to be able to disable the metro UI and Metro apps.

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#4721054 Posted on: 12/10/2013 11:20 AM

I'm still on Win 7 myself.

I honestly never tried Win 8/8.1 but if it's true 8.2 will be roughly the same as 7 it might pull me over the line.

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#4721057 Posted on: 12/10/2013 11:24 AM

a little too late but better late than never. it's a good sign that at last the company decided to listen, that's what's important.

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#4721058 Posted on: 12/10/2013 11:25 AM

TheDeeGee
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#4721061 Posted on: 12/10/2013 11:29 AM

There is nothing wrong with 8.1. Yes people should have the option but how many here swore that they would never touch 8/8.1 but when battlefield 4 came out everyone swapped then realised that it's actually not that bad.
Apart for the usual teething compatibility issues ive had no problems with 8/8.1.

Some of us also wait atleast a year untill all bugs are fixed.

I experienced the same this round but with Haswell from day one. It's cool to
have new stuff on day one, but it goes paired with issues you can't be
bothered with.

Win 8.2 should be pretty much bug free for ppl coming from Win 7.

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#4721062 Posted on: 12/10/2013 11:31 AM

8.1 introduced the mouse lagg thingy, i hope they will fix that

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#4721077 Posted on: 12/10/2013 11:55 AM

I'm still on Win 7 myself.

I honestly never tried Win 8/8.1 but if it's true 8.2 will be roughly the same as 7 it might pull me over the line.

Still on Windows 7 too, not in any hurry to upgrade just yet...

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#4721103 Posted on: 12/10/2013 12:25 PM

8.1 introduced the mouse lagg thingy, i hope they will fix that

If you disable screen scaling, it should be fixed. There's also workaround for that @ MS site - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2908279

Regarding Start Menu... I really don't get why people fail to learn to use it. Still, for me it's 7 < 8 < 8.1, so 8.2 will likely to be even better.

I also like that windowed option for "Modern UI" apps. It should be there from the beginning.

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