So according to this logic, Office 2013 also has an old installer? Because it sure threw up a whole bunch of icons on my start screen. Every executable that comes along with offices 2013 is there. And of course they are mixed in with icons from other applications as well. I have steam icons next to SQL stuff which is next to Office,... Yeah, I could fix them and group them all together in nice little groups but my OCD only can take so much organization before I will give up and avoid the whole mess! Just like the vast majority of windows 8 users out there and one more reason that the start page is a complete joke
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Hi there (Not @turbofish but primarily directed at mdmd).
You just don't get it do you -- you are just mouthing what seems like a canned response like those poor devils working in those huge Off shored "Call / Service" centres (Aka 21st century slave /sweatshops) in places like Bangalore who have to read from prepared scripts whatever the caller's question is.
HERE AGAIN FOR YOPUR INPUT.
YES I am quite capable of unpinning / re-arranging or playing around every which way with this stuff -- my whole point (I'll even translate it into Icelandic for you if it helps) was to say that for a typical non technical user knowing WHAT to unpin and HOW to know what are the applications they want to run --is the basic problem. Some of these setups just attach every executable (.EXE) file to the start screen as a separate tile and often outside the main application's programs too. You surely can't expect a bog standard user to have to worry about whether the "Installer is compatible". They just either insert a CD / DVD or download an application from the internet and run the install. They shouldn't then need a Doctorate in computer science to be able to sort the whole mess out so they can run their app sensibly.
I don't get fazed too many times but try and understand what the poster is saying -- of course your answer is fine for people like us --but it wasn't about people like us that I was talking about.
Cheers
jimbo