@goodintentions:
Am I any more a caricature than other members here that fall all over themselves praising everything about Windows 8.0? They seem to hate anyone that dislikes the Metro UI....and tend to lambaste anyone that dare disagree about 8 being the holy grail of OS.
I don't hate Windows 8 or metro for that matter. What I do intensely DISLIKE is the arrogant way that MS decided to FORCE customers to use Metro UI at any cost, instead of giving us the CHOICE to select which UI we want to use at the default boot.
The fact is that for productivity metro has little or NO use, and the overwhelming majority of users agree with me.
We don't know that the overwhelming majority of users agree with you. There's no data on it. All we have are a few loud mouths that don't like metro. And everyone knows that people who like a product or are indifferent rarely say anything at all. It's only the ones that are extremely displeased that would go online to write a dozen negative reviews, hold press conferences, and threaten to move to Canada to breed with the natives there.
I don't take any offense because the truth can't be argued and the customers have spoken. The fact that MS decided to offer default boot to desktop confirms that as well.
Not really. It only proves that MS is willing to take the extra step to shut the loud mouths up.
Now only if we can get MS to put the function of the start button back to a traditional menu format as it was in Windows 7 and previous versions. It seems USELESS to design it the way they have all it does is annoy, and frustrate desktop users.
If folks want to get to the metro UI perhaps MS could simply develop a short cut to it on the desktop as an option...how about it?
I actually agree with you that MS should put the start menu function back in, if only to shut some people up. I'm indifferent about it. I don't really care if there's a start menu or not. I'll tell you this, though. I have classic shell installed, and I haven't touched since my initial test after I installed it.
I do, however, appreciate MS forcing me to move beyond the start menu.
I was really used to windows xp. When vista came out, I tried it and then rapidly downgraded to xp. When 7 came out, I refused to upgrade to it for a long time. Then finally a couple years ago I decided to upgrade. You know what the first thing I did was? Changed over to classic view and never touched the search. Whenever I needed to open a program, I'd search through the start menu. Sometimes when I'm tired, I'd spend like 10 minutes just trying to search for what I was looking for. Using the search function never occurred to me.
When I finally got 8, I hated the fact that there was no start menu. I had to for once use the search function. So, instead of spending several minutes searching through the start menu to get what I needed, I could just use the search function that takes 1 second.
So, yes, if anything I'm really glad MS forced me to move on beyond the start menu. So, despite me having one nowadays I still don't use it at all. It's a vestigial part of windows, IMHO.
But I also understand that there are die-hards out there. I used to be one. So, yes, I really do believe that MS would bring the start menu back if only to shut people up.