Removing the Start Menu from Windows is like removing the steering wheel from a new car model. It is NOT an improvement or a “new” way of driving! It
s a wreck in the making is what it is.
Metro UI itself may be barely acceptable on a credit-card sized touch-screen device, but is 100% useless on a desktop or laptop screen, pretty much akin to stripping your kitchen of all cooking utensils except for a bowl and a pan.
If MS persists with this insanity when they release W8 to the public, I will be buying some LEAP Puts on a PC-tech index fund.
So how is it?
You press the Windows key on the key board, and you select a program.
Why is this now something that is so beyond average people to grasp? All of a sudden users are acting as if they practically live in their Start Menu. The last time I actually did anything other than use the frequently used program list must have been months ago.
Just for fun I just clicked on the “all programs” button and I have a god awful list of tiny icons and small black text on white backgrounds.
But we are to think this is the apex of GUI design that MS should not dare move away from?