The START page is an okay idea for a mobile or a tablet. The desktop is still there to use, which I immediately did, after taking almost everything (useless nonsense) off the Start page. The problem then is finding what one wants. Luckily, on the desktop screen, my folders are still in the same places, so I can navigate those main bits and bobs the 'old' way. There was no problem with this, as this is the way I customised it over time. I just wish that the settings and toolboxes for ppt/word/office/etc. were saved too! Some form of transition - as mentioned previously - would have been very welcome. Even just keeping the old programs and giving a tutorial to how one can make the new one have the same toolbar options - in the same places. (2010 is just too BIG on the screen - probably for the tablet and mobile market...) I can see the appeal for the tablet market especially. This is probably (almost certainly) going to be the future. But the home desktop p.c. needs a desktop AND a customisable start menu. Yes, I know that win 8 has those. Those people who insisted on having EVERY SINGLE icon on their desktop, rather than arrange their stuff neatly into folders, (Stupidly confusing IMO) this is an easy changeover. I only ever used to use the start menu previously if I didn't know where to look automatically. Everything else was in a folder under a subject. It still is and that's the way it is staying. You might ask why I changed? Well I stupidly believed what the idolisers were saying - and the fact that it was only £25!
On a positive note, 'Custom Guide' has the PDF's of 'how to' find and use all the '2010' programs. Just don't part with any money as they are all available for nothing.
My son (8) has had 2010 at school since 2010 (!) so he can jump straight in and be marvellous. I'm trying to be positive.
But I hate it.
Bill Windows - if you are a programmer, then why not make something better than Apple and which competes positively rather than stir up a Hornets nest of bad vibes to downright hatred? The same goes for all programmers. BTW, I hate iTunes as it is just stupidly laid out. WMP is fine, (which is the best of a bad bunch IMO) but not when it decides when and where to arrange ones media, when it was arranged perfectly on the flippin' album!
I'm rambling now, so I'll stop.
