And how many times does that happen that safe mode is needed?
If you are only sending emails and hanging-out on Farce-book, you should hardly ever need it.
But if you (for example) test and review a lot of programs, drivers etc, or if you like playing around
in the 'guts' of your hardware and software, then you
will need it, and on a fairly regular basis
at that. It's very dependent on how you compute, and what you actually do.
Hiding it wasn't very bright, its total removal would border on foolhardiness.
As for the Start menu, I'm not really worried about whether they reintroduce it, I actually prefer
Classic Shell to MS' offering. But I do want to see Aero returned in full. I couldn't care less about
battery life, and shouldn't have to suffer to cater for those who do. They should be able to turn it
off if they wish, but I should not have to make sacrifices in order to cater to the wants and wishes
of the tablet/phone 'mob'.
Yet another option that should not have been 'dumbed-down', hidden or removed, IMO.
Wenda.