From an unlikely source... Stardock.Start8 for Windows® 8 - Bringing back the Windows Start menu
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... it may not be exactly what people that want the start menu are looking for...
Let me get this right (because I haven't installed Win8 yet and may not get the chance to do so for a while): Windows 8 when run on a desktop implements Metro and does not give the user the opportunity to go to a "classic" desktop (with start menu, taskbar, etc)? Or have I got it wrong? And if the first statement is true, how exactly do you access your apps that don't create a Metro icon or are not specifically designed for Win8? :huh:
Windows 8 when run on a desktop implements Metro and does not give the user the opportunity to go to a "classic" desktop (with start menu, taskbar, etc)? Or have I got it wrong? And if the first statement is true, how exactly do you access your apps that don't create a Metro icon or are not specifically designed for Win8? :huh:
There still is a desktop. Windows 7 and lower apps will work (as they did for me in Dev Preview). You start in Metro, but there is a Classic Desktop with Taskbar. The only thing, if you click where the start button was, you get the Metro interface, "start menu"Let me get this right (because I haven't installed Win8 yet and may not get the chance to do so for a while): Windows 8 when run on a desktop implements Metro and does not give the user the opportunity to go to a "classic" desktop (with start menu, taskbar, etc)? Or have I got it wrong? And if the first statement is true, how exactly do you access your apps that don't create a Metro icon or are not specifically designed for Win8? :huh:
there is an option for classic desktop, just no start menu when you are in it.
There still is a desktop. Windows 7 and lower apps will work (as they did for me in Dev Preview). You start in Metro, but there is a Classic Desktop with Taskbar. The only thing, if you click where the start button was, you get the Metro interface, "start menu"Let me get this right (because I haven't installed Win8 yet and may not get the chance to do so for a while): Windows 8 when run on a desktop implements Metro and does not give the user the opportunity to go to a "classic" desktop (with start menu, taskbar, etc)? Or have I got it wrong? And if the first statement is true, how exactly do you access your apps that don't create a Metro icon or are not specifically designed for Win8? :huh:
Yes they will.There still is a desktop. Windows 7 and lower apps will work (as they did for me in Dev Preview). You start in Metro, but there is a Classic Desktop with Taskbar. The only thing, if you click where the start button was, you get the Metro interface, "start menu"Let me get this right (because I haven't installed Win8 yet and may not get the chance to do so for a while): Windows 8 when run on a desktop implements Metro and does not give the user the opportunity to go to a "classic" desktop (with start menu, taskbar, etc)? Or have I got it wrong? And if the first statement is true, how exactly do you access your apps that don't create a Metro icon or are not specifically designed for Win8? :huh:
Thank you. Legacy apps will create a Metro shortcut then?
The button is in two locations, and the menu and turned into a screen that acts the same as the menu, but FAR more customizable than the menu.
A genuine removal of choice on Microsoft's behalf would had been to get rid of the Desktop altogether, scrap NT code, and focus solely on the metro environment and WinRT.
A genuine removal of choice on Microsoft's behalf would had been to get rid of the Desktop altogether, scrap NT code, and focus solely on the metro environment and WinRT.
Now, saying that that Start button and menu are gone isn't a removal of choice. The button is in two locations, and the menu and turned into a screen that acts the same as the menu, but FAR more customizable than the menu. It's like saying a car manufacturer changed the doors on a new model year car so instead of simply hinging out, they open up like gullwing doors. "But it's a removal of choice!".....
Or...the Windows 7!