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.

lucidus
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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.

Rugburn
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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..

kislotikas
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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:

Pill Monster
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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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