“I am confused. A best buy sales person showed me it takes about 3 seconds to set a default to use the old start menu interface on Windows 8.”
Uh, no. That’s not Windows 8.0, it’s Windows 8.1.
Windows 8.0 users have to upgrade to 8.1 (my clients computers (yes, the computers) refuse to upgrade to 8.1 - arrrrrrgh!) to access the start menu or use third party software like Classic Start Menu.
Microsoft put the start menu option into 8.1 because so many customers wer pissed off by it’s absence in 8.0.
>> Microsoft put the start menu option into 8.1
... and it’s not even a real Start menu. It’s just a Metro-esque screenful of icons.
It was more than just the start menu option. The netbook I had used for work-travel for 4 years finally died. I had to buy a new unit and chose the Surface Pro 3. Loved the machine...hated windows 8.1!
I needed the machine to work out of the box in order to stay productive. I did not have time for a learning curve on 8.1. It may be intuitive for you young techies, but I found 8.1 to be a pain in the a$$!
Took the Surface Pro back to Best Buy and traded it for a Mac Book Air 11.6 in. It is the very first Apple product I have ever owned. It is well built and and I am very happy with it. Don't think I am the only one. Girl at Best Buy said a lot of people were not happy and bringing them back. Microsoft pissed off a whole bunch of people this time.
Go get the 8.1 distributable from technet. You will be happy again (prolly).