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Windows 8.1 start buttons leaks, looks familiar
So yesterday we already posted some info on the return of the Start menu. We now have a screenshot available. Microsoft is expected to include a Start button with the Windows 8.1 update and now we have our first look at the new button and it looks quite familiar to those of you who use Windows 8.
The button looks exactly like the charms bar Start button, which should come as little surprise, and is located exactly where you would expect it to be.
While the button will be nothing more than a gateway to the Modern Start screen, it will likely appease many consumers who had trouble navigating the new platform. But if this does not function like the "Old Windows" start button then what is the point? All it will do is bring me back to the metro interface? How useless is that?
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#4610459 Posted on: 06/03/2013 03:40 AM
I'm an old dog, so new things like no 'Start' button the Win8 really bothered me, so I'd refused to get it. Now, with this, I might just jumped on Win8, but only for my FX8350 build......my other builds are just fine so I'm leaving them alone.
I'm an old dog, so new things like no 'Start' button the Win8 really bothered me, so I'd refused to get it. Now, with this, I might just jumped on Win8, but only for my FX8350 build......my other builds are just fine so I'm leaving them alone.
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#4610464 Posted on: 06/03/2013 03:57 AM
I am used to not having a start menu now. The Metro UI isn't all that bad once you understand it.
I am used to not having a start menu now. The Metro UI isn't all that bad once you understand it.
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#4610492 Posted on: 06/03/2013 05:53 AM
i do not understand why there's so much whining going on about that start button. basically if you click in the lower left corner of the screen you open up the metro interface, which is just a fullscreen start button. what's the deal? because of stuff like this i really believed the only way to access metro was to press the windows key. i've recently installed windows 8 just to find out it's not like that at all.
and i got used to it very fast. the only annoying things in windows 8 are those fullscreen apps for games or media and stuff. the rest is fine. do you REALLY need to SEE the start button?
I don't understand why people are so much against choice. When you remove Linux from the picture, Windows compared to OSX has been a bastion of customization options and backwards compatibility- being able to install Windows 3, and move though the upgrade cycle all the way to the newest OS believe it or not actually works. Up until Windows 7, we users had the choice to remove the new pin to taskbar and taskbar icon grouping if we did not like it, hell we could make the OS look like Win95 IF we wanted it to.
Knowing that history, is it that surprising that there is such a backlash when Windows 8 removes the long held idea that I can, with a few clicks, turn off DWM, turn off Metro, ect?
This is what I mean when I say MS is out of touch with people.
There is a reason during Windows 8 opening months had a slower adoption rate than Vista , and is now slowing losing it's install base with people retreating back to 7.
TL;DR- People don't like a giant corporation deciding for you how you should use your computer.
i do not understand why there's so much whining going on about that start button. basically if you click in the lower left corner of the screen you open up the metro interface, which is just a fullscreen start button. what's the deal? because of stuff like this i really believed the only way to access metro was to press the windows key. i've recently installed windows 8 just to find out it's not like that at all.
and i got used to it very fast. the only annoying things in windows 8 are those fullscreen apps for games or media and stuff. the rest is fine. do you REALLY need to SEE the start button?
I don't understand why people are so much against choice. When you remove Linux from the picture, Windows compared to OSX has been a bastion of customization options and backwards compatibility- being able to install Windows 3, and move though the upgrade cycle all the way to the newest OS believe it or not actually works. Up until Windows 7, we users had the choice to remove the new pin to taskbar and taskbar icon grouping if we did not like it, hell we could make the OS look like Win95 IF we wanted it to.
Knowing that history, is it that surprising that there is such a backlash when Windows 8 removes the long held idea that I can, with a few clicks, turn off DWM, turn off Metro, ect?
This is what I mean when I say MS is out of touch with people.
There is a reason during Windows 8 opening months had a slower adoption rate than Vista , and is now slowing losing it's install base with people retreating back to 7.
TL;DR- People don't like a giant corporation deciding for you how you should use your computer.
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#4610508 Posted on: 06/03/2013 07:26 AM
Exactly. I couldn't care less about this Metro stuff if I could simply switch it off (or better yet, have an option to exclude it during the installation). I am okay if some people find it convenient to use, even though for me it's difficult to imagine. I don't like it, and I don't want it to be forced upon me.
The problem is, they WANT everyone to use this "innovative" but plain and ugly interface. As long as they keep forcing it, I'm not going to upgrade.
TL;DL- People don't like a giant corporation deciding for you how you should use your computer.
Exactly. I couldn't care less about this Metro stuff if I could simply switch it off (or better yet, have an option to exclude it during the installation). I am okay if some people find it convenient to use, even though for me it's difficult to imagine. I don't like it, and I don't want it to be forced upon me.
The problem is, they WANT everyone to use this "innovative" but plain and ugly interface. As long as they keep forcing it, I'm not going to upgrade.
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I don't really miss the start button, already gotten used to this.