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Perfect blend? It's a cluttered mess!

Hard to believe that Microsoft made the mixed UI paradigms worse -- but they did! By putting them both in the SAME INTERFACE now - the Start Menu.

Yes, I know you can remove the tiles from the start menu -- you have to remove them ALL which is really kind of stupid on Microsoft's part.

Been running the Windows 10 Tech Preview since last night - honestly NOT impressed. The "start" menu that Microsoft "put back" smacks of the Metro UI including using the flat tiles as menu icons, and the "start" button itself being the Metro icon.

Honest to God it's like Microsoft's trying to slap their user base and call them stupid AGAIN.

What Microsoft really needs to do is remove every bit of the Metro UI from the desktop, period. Remove the tiles from the Start Menu, no "tiles" in the Apps view, and for heaven's sake GET RID OF THE METRO APPS.

There is NOTHING UGLIER (except for Helen Thomas) than looking at a Metro app and a Windows App running side by side. That in itself is a complete cluster-fuck that Microsoft should've looked at and said "maybe that's not such a good idea."

DUMB, DUMB, DUMB,DUMB! It's like Microsoft flat out ignored all the feedback they received about how horrible the Metro UI and Metro apps are on the desktop.

No compelling reason to change for Windows 7 users, and no compelling reason for any 8.x users who've figured out how to put a REAL start menu back in v. 8.x and made their Windows 8 look/feel like Windows 7 again.

If Microsoft keeps going down this path mixing Metro and "Classic" apps in menu's and desktop applications they'll have two horrible releases of Windows in a row.

Change Course Microsoft! DUMP EVERY BIT OF METRO OUT OF THE DESKTOP.

The tiles on the right side of the Start menu look and work the same as the tiles on the Windows 8.1 Start screen. You can launch an app, or if you right-click its tile you’ll be able to unpin it from Start, pin it to the taskbar, uninstall it, or resize it. There are small, medium, wide and large sizes available (although not all sizes are available for all tiles). Live tiles can be turned on or off.

Or, I can just open the window the .exe's (or shortcuts) are located in, and slide the view from list to info list, to ordered icons, to small icons, to medium icons, to large icons, if I really need 'tiles' that badly. The whole concept of forcing the tiled Metro display (was 'Homo' already trademarked?) was with the idea of tablets. Touchscreen-only interfaces. But on a PC with a mouse, they're stupid.

I don't quite see why someone would want a bunch of huge, randomly sized links when you can have neat, ordered lists of links like a regular menu.