Stop? Microsoft removes the 'Start' button from Windows 8

[fullyautomatix]

I am using Win8 on a tablet and in my version there is a "windows" button but that works like the home key of IOS and takes yu to home screen with all the programs laid out as panels. If you install a new program the short cut gets slotted in as a panel on this home screen.

I installed Firefox and its now a panel and to launch it I go to the home screen and tap the firefix icon. But Firefox isnt optimised for Win8 and its a pain in the ass.

[SimonMac]

Oh FFS - even Daily Mail writes about it and there is nothing on supposedly IT related forum?

"The latest test version of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 software is missing one crucial button - the Start button and menu, an iconic part of Microsoft's operating system since it was introduced in Windows 95.

The button evolved to become the operating system's 'launchpad', offering access to software, files and search functions.

Earlier test versions of Windows 8 had flattened the recognisable 'orb' - but the new build removes it altogether, according to leaked screenshots from tech site The Verge.

Microsoft has not announced a release date for the new operating system, built to work with touchscreens as well as on conventional PCs, but it's widely expected to release in the second half of this year. "

Source: Windows 8: Microsoft removes 'Start' button | Mail Online

WTF are they smoking at Microsoft?

This is going to be repeat of:

MS DOS 4.0
MS DOS 6.0
Windows ME
Vista
Windows 8

Have you not noticed a pattern? Every other major version of Windows is tulip.

95 = Good
98 = Crap
98SE = Good
ME = Crap
XP = Good
Vista = Crap
Win7 = Good
Win8 = ....

[Sysman]

Have you not noticed a pattern? Every other major version of Windows is tulip.

95 = Good
98 = Crap
98SE = Good
ME = Crap
XP = Good
Vista = Crap
Win7 = Good
Win8 = ....

You missed out Windows 2000, which I am told was quite reasonable.

[Ignis Fatuus]

You missed out Windows 2000, which I am told was quite reasonable.

That was on the NT/professional thread. ME was the consumer OS at the same time.

[Ignis Fatuus]

I dunno WTF is going on in the desktop o/s world. I've considered trying a Mac for the first time in my life.

A bit late, they're going tabletty too. Worse, Macs are not necessarily backwards compatible with older versions of OS X (otherwise I'd still be using an older version, I don't like my laptop trying to behave like an iPhone).

[NickFitz]

That was on the NT/professional thread. ME was the consumer OS at the same time.

But all Windows OSs since that have been NT-based, thus breaking your pattern: Win2K good, XP good...

[scooterscot]

How am I going to shutdown my computer without a start button?

[SimonMac]

How am I going to shutdown my computer without a start button?

"shutdown /f" or "shutdown /r" if you just want to reboot or "shutdown /l" to log off

You people have gotten so lazy thanks to gui's

[BrilloPad]

But all Windows OSs since that have been NT-based, thus breaking your pattern: Win2K good, XP good...

I saw Microsoft's strategy a while ago. CE.ME.NT.

[d000hg]

Oh no, now we've got months/years of AtW telling us he can't use his computer because he can't learn new things. It's the Ribbon all over again. AtW just buy Office and Win8 for Dummies and you'll be fine.


Also, what was wrong with DOS 6?