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.
Its a pain in the ass even for techies.
Its not just the tiles, its the system settings UI all over the place.
Checking on services, process monitor, even Wifi scan and setup is stupidly difficult. There is a ridiculous reduction in the data-intensity of the UI in all sorts of system tools.
Great real life story.
Microsoft had a period of time when only Windows 8 computers were available, now they have rereleased Windows 7 and new computers are available loaded with Windows 7.
I had to replace my 8 year old XP laptop at that time and went the Mac route as well.
I need to operate daily with multiple Microsoft programs so I installed Parallels 8 and purchased a copy of Windows 7.
Now I have a spectacular computer that is solid and stable, have two versions of Microsoft Professional (2003 and 2010) loaded and Windows 7 runs extremely well.
Additionally some printers do not have super great drivers on the Mac platform but I’m running Windows so the 10,000 pages I printed in the last month printed perfectly.
I love AirPrint and three of our four printers have AirPrint.
It really is the best of both worlds!
PS. I purchased and set up a 13” Mac Air for a client last month. 8GB RAM, i7 and a 512 GB SSD. Sharp machine and she’s super happy (she did not like either of her Win 8 computers).
Happy computing!