Start Menu Orb Hidden In Latest Windows 8 Builds

PC users who are buying a new computer with the Windows 8 operating system, and those who are upgrading their existing versions will have to cope with quite a few major design changes over previous versions of the Windows operating system.

The new Metro UI interface obviously makes the top of that list. Tech savvy users who follow the development of Windows 8 are still not sure whether it will improve their workflow on desktop systems. The Windows 8 Beta, which will supposedly be released later this months, should give everyone an answer to that.
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Start Menu Orb Hidden In Latest Windows 8 Builds
 
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Coke Robot said:
The Start Screen is a further evolution of the start menu and should be respected as such, not segregated into two separate interfaces that can't or won't have a chance to work together.
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Totally agree. And that's been one of my chief complaints about Metro - it's too separate from everything else. I've got no beef with MS moving in a new direction, but when we have enough time to look back at 8, it could very well be perceived as nothing but a transition, just like Vista was with 7. Or it could blow up in MS's face. I really don't know. Just want to see this thing in action at the end of the month.
 

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I liked how they had the start button in the dev version. Put it back MS >:/
 
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Colonel Travis said:
Coke Robot said:
The Start Screen is a further evolution of the start menu and should be respected as such, not segregated into two separate interfaces that can't or won't have a chance to work together.
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Totally agree. And that's been one of my chief complaints about Metro - it's too separate from everything else. I've got no beef with MS moving in a new direction, but when we have enough time to look back at 8, it could very well be perceived as nothing but a transition, just like Vista was with 7. Or it could blow up in MS's face. I really don't know. Just want to see this thing in action at the end of the month.
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Or maybe the Desktop is not metro enough..... :p
 

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Coke Robot said:
Or maybe the Desktop is not metro enough..... :p
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Honestly - you're right. Although, I don't know how a Metro-fied file system would work. Haven't given that much thought. All I know is that, to me, 8 does not feel cohesive. Even though I'm not a fan of what I've seen thus far, I would rather see everything in one piece. That would be a huge improvement. Right now it's like an OS slapped on top of another OS.
 

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What my impression is. Remember back in the olden days of Windows 3.1? We had small icons that were connected to the programs
installed, and now with Metro, just seems to me Microsoft is taking a step back to those days and putting a new twist on it with the metro interface. I don't see Windows 8 selling many copies myself when it is released. :sick:
 

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In the Developer Preview you didn't see that load directly to a desktop but one screen full of large buttons and had to click on the one for the desktop. It was a task just to open up a second IE window when having to go back through that same screen all over again.

In the ComputerWorld article on the Start orb that refers to is as a hot spot down in the lower left corner. Microsoft drops Start button from Windows 8, reports say - Computerworld

Glad to see one guide for 8 is already! :D That will help in 3 weeks!
 

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