Microsoft: Keep the Start menus in Windows 8, please!

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Let’s see how the Consumer Preview shapes up.InfoWorld Tech Watch.
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Yet another Microsoft Windows 8 preview demo which does not show the real-world picture. I suspect the “Black Hole” is only a temporary artifact.

I sincerely doubt that the codebase has been rewritten to make it impossible to download and use the third-party Start Menu Toggle utility. One download, two mouse clicks and a log out and log in, and presto! there’s the old Legacy Desktop with the Start Menu. Totally reversible if you need to use Metro Apps once in awhile. (Or, if you only need to use Legacy Applications once in awhile.)

On Tablets, why would anyone want to use the Start Menu? No keyboard and mouse anyway. But even in Metro (if you use it on a desktop or laptop PC), there’s the Win+F shortcut for all Applications and Settings, or Win+Q for just the Applications. The Neowin web site even says the Applications will be grouped by Parent Folder (Windows 7 style) and that Jump Lists will still be around.

But all this FUD about the Vanishing Desktop or the Disappearing Start Menu diverts valuable energy and attention away from some real improvements in Window 8. Just one example is far faster and more efficient handling of transfers of large files or complex file structures as compared with Windows 7. Another is improved security.

Will I be switching to Windows 8 before its SP1? Probably not. But I may choose to run it alongside of Windows 7 to learn the new Windows 8 ways of doing things, and not be caught off-guard when and if I ever do move up full-time.

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Microsoft removed the Start Menu and the Start Button completely. If I wanted to do all my office work on a tablet, I would have gone and bought myself a new iPad (which I still might do, if I’m forced to choose between a Windows tablet and an iPad). Why can’t we just leave the tablet market to Apple and the PC market to Microsoft? Don’t get me wrong, I like Windows 8 in general, but what happened to freedom of speech and choices. In Windows XP we had the choice to switch back to the Classic Start Menu and in Windows 7 we have XP Mode.

It looks like in Windows 8, the only choices we have are to tablet or not to tablet. Rizonesoft started a petition to ask Microsoft to at least give us a choice between the interfaces and bring the Start Menu back. Go here: http://www.rizonesoft.com/2012/bring-back-the-start-menu/ for more information about the petition. Please help Rizonesoft accomplish this almost impossible task by signing and sharing this petition.

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I signed the Rizonesoft petition, and I urge everybody to join me!

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