Nonsense. They probably allow users to disable it and it might be disabled by default. But it certainly won't be removed. // Sorry for being hasty. Looks like only the first paragraph which is visible in front page is wrong. Congrats, made me click it 🙂

I've yet to hear of a User Experience applet in the CP/PC S rumour which allows manual configuration of all this. I'm sure there are a lot of people who would want to tweak their experience instead of relying on auto detect.

"Remove the Live Tiles Start Screen" actually means "disable the Start Screen and relocate Live Tiles elsewhere for non touch-enabled hardware configurations". http://www.zdnet.com/windows-threshold-more-on-microsofts-plan-to-win-over-windows-7-users-7000031070/ WinRT subsystem and Metro UI apps certainly won't be removed. They would just blend with Desktop applications by having a windowed mode and Task Bar shortcuts, and Live Tiles will probably move to a "Mini Start Screen" within the new Start Menu, just as shown in those Threshold mock-ups from Build 2014.

I doubt that MS would do this but here is an Idea on what they should do. After you have a touch screen device such as a monitor installed and after the driver is installed they should ask whether or not you want live tiles enabled.

Touch UI for touch devices, non-touch UI for non-touch devices Took you long enough to work that one out MS

Microsoft would be planning the remove the Live Tiles start screen from Windows for PCs in a future version of Windows. The Windows version for tablets and hybrids would still keep that function of co... Microsoft might disable Live Tiles in a Future Windows Desktop versions

woot better late then never, if it actual happens

http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/start-menu-will-replace-start-screen-threshold

...you will be able to maximize the Start menu so that it takes up the whole screen and looks and works much like the Start screen does today in Windows 8.x. .. if the system boots to the desktop... it will provide a menu that is roughly analogous, size-wise to the Windows 7 Start menu. But if you are using a tablet or other touch-based system with no keyboard, you will boot to a full-screen Start menu that looks and works a lot like the Start screen does now. Users will be able to toggle between the two displays ... and configure it to work as they prefer.