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So you can see more than one program - sorry, 'app' - running at the same time and resize their respective visualisation areas? That needs a new name - how about...... "Windows"? Sorry, but seems to me that MS have done this before. A long time ago.

Like maybe perhaps possibly a fully opaque, individually colourable taskbar?

It's even made the BBC News: BBC News - Microsoft 'U-turn' sees Start button back on Windows 8 Question is: will Windows 8.1 be available in the shops, or do you have to buy and install Windows 8 first, and then upgrade it? Ideally, of course, upgrades from XP and 7 should be available again.

According to the BBC, 8.1 will bring not only the Start button (of a sort), but also direct-to-desktop booting and more colour & customisation flexibility: BBC News - Microsoft 'U-turn' sees Start button back on Windows 8

Part of the problem is Microsoft programmers dictating to customers what they should like in terms of GUI look and feel. If W8 were to look and feel like W7 (all the way through; not just as far as Classic Shell goes) many more PC desktop users would consider upgrading. And if W8 were to be able...

This is more or less how I have my XP arranged. Because the task bar / launch bar icons under XP are small and close together, I have 32 icons taking up less than half the width of the screen, leaving plenty of room for running programmes and the system tray. When I see my kids' Windows 7...

The organisation I work for will be changing from XP to 7 and Office 2003 to Office 2007 (or 2010, not sure which) this summer. That's some 8000 workstations to convert. Forget Windows 8 and Office 2013 - an IT chap told me that if Windows 9 isn't any better when support for Win7 runs out, it'll...

To answer the opening question on this thread: No. I like working from the (XP) desktop. It's not a question of working faster with this or that operating system, it's a question of comfort and convenience. I don't need to use that Start button often, as I have the thirty programmes my wife...

I don't want one, either. I agree entirely. An Ipad, or other tablet device, is simply no replacement for a PC for serious typing or sppreadsheet applications, or for creating presentations, or diagrams, or sorting through lots of pictures, or picture processing.... for these things you need a...

1. Uninstall Office 2013 Preview.. 2. Install Office 2013 RTM. 3. Start Word. 4. Note with horror that it's still all glaring white. 5. Find how to select between white, very light grey and slightly less light grey. 6. Wish you could get some colour into it. 7. Try Small Caps out and compare...

Could be dangerous - you might do the ordering on a different PC to the one you want Win8 for.

I have found many offers for Windows 8 Upgrades, and for Windows 8 pre-installed on new PCs.... but it seems difficult to find a full-licence Windows 8 for an existing PC which doesn't have a previous version of Windows on it. I have installed the Enterprise Evaluation on an old Shuttle PC, and...

How can I stop the taskbar from being translucent? At the moment, the taskbar changes hue when I change the background picture, and it is slightly translucent, i.e. background picture features show through the taskbar a bit. I want the taskbar to be a solid, nontranslucent, nonchanging colour...

I'm sticking with XP. I don't really like 7 that much, let alone 8. My kids have 7 on their PCs and laptops, and I just don't like it. I don't have a laptop or a tablet, have no need for one and no intention of getting one. I suppose that makes me a dinosaur. But then so is the organisation I...

I have a Nano.... 3rd generation, the one with the 'landscape' display, and I'm still very happy with it. My kids have 5th generation Nanos; they like mucking about with the camera (and thereby draining the battery and filling up memory), but I just use mine to play music. I, too, was dismayed...

Me, I'd prefer something along the lines of XPforW8..... I still prefer the way my XP looks to my kids' Win7.... By the way, wherever does that phrase 'rocks' come from? One sees it all over the place nowadays...

I always use Alt-F4 to close Windows (XP), and that works on Win8, so I did not realise that there is a problem there. As for the Metro interface always opening programs in full-screen - yes, that is annoying. After all, it's called 'Windows', yet it now gives preference to the non-windowed...

OK, so Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, want to do away with the Start button. How, then, are we users supposed to do all the things we used to use the Start button for? Where else may we find a simple list of installed programs? Are we supposed to have a coloured tile for each and every...

How about putting the Metro Start Screen in a Window on the Desktop? The OS is called "Windows", after all, not "Tiles". It could have smaller and more configurable tiles, and called up by pressing the Windows button on the keyboard or clicking (sorry, tapping) on a special icon (bottom left...