With Windows Blue, a k a Windows 8.1, Microsoft is re-introducing a Start Button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work.
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With Windows Blue, a k a Windows 8.1, Microsoft is re-introducing a Start Button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work.
Boot-straight-to-desktop is in the Windows Blue Milestone Preview builds, too, my source confirmed. And it supposedly works just like it sounds: Users can opt to see the Desktop, and not the Metro-Style Start Screen when their PCs/tablets start up. Clicking the Start Button in this view takes users to the Metro Style Start Screen, even though users start on the desktop.
It seems no matter what MS does it won't make some people happy. I can somewhat understand why some don't like the "billboard" Start Screen, but I think that this is a good compromise if true.
Those who want to boot straight to the desktop will have an option to do so without third party software. You'll be able to do away with the "billboard" Start Screen and use All Apps which is actually the new Start Menu anyway.
I would ad another group which seems to be largest :
People that did not even try to work on it but hate it because they heard it's bad.
Now they replace the whole useful menu with - yes you've guessed it - the very thing they say users aren't going to very much.
Even better, take all the files out of the well arranged All Programs folders ( which we hardly ever use ) and throw them into one big folder that covers the entire screen.
start menu isn't ergonomic when you have to move the mouse pointer around from either the top at the MFU list after moving it all the way down. Or, hitting the Start button, up to hit All Programs, move it up again to program on the top of the list, or scroll down to find a program folder.Let me see if I have this right.
MS excuse for removing start menu:
Taskbar pinning and desktop icons mean users go to start menu (all programs ) less often.
[Conveniently forgetting all the other functions ergonomically grouped sensibly in one neat place at bottom left.]
Now they replace the whole useful menu with - yes you've guessed it - the very thing they say users aren't going to very much.
Even better, take all the files out of the well arranged All Programs folders ( which we hardly ever use ) and throw them into one big folder that covers the entire screen.
Sheer genius
start menu isn't ergonomic when you have to move the mouse pointer around from either the top at the MFU list after moving it all the way down. Or, hitting the Start button, up to hit All Programs, move it up again to program on the top of the list, or scroll down to find a program folder.Let me see if I have this right.
MS excuse for removing start menu:
Taskbar pinning and desktop icons mean users go to start menu (all programs ) less often.
[Conveniently forgetting all the other functions ergonomically grouped sensibly in one neat place at bottom left.]
Now they replace the whole useful menu with - yes you've guessed it - the very thing they say users aren't going to very much.
Even better, take all the files out of the well arranged All Programs folders ( which we hardly ever use ) and throw them into one big folder that covers the entire screen.
Sheer genius
A tedious task.
But then again, let's just complain about things to complain about.