[Hostage]

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.

Is this tech agitprop?

[Red Badger]

Do you take advice from people trying to sell you something?.......

[Erik Latranyi]

Is this tech agitprop?

Of course it is.

There are no problems with Windows 8.1 for either desktop or older laptops.

It is phenomenal for touchscreen devices, such as tablet PCs...which are the future.

[DaveyB]

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.

It is not the same start menu as Win7. It is a source of frustration in practice.

[BBB333]

“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.