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To: dennisw
Start 8 is what I like and use NOT classic shell.

That is fine. Thank God for such options, and also for Windows and the PC in general, despite my criticism in wanting to make it even better, to be used for good.

35 posted on 04/02/2015 7:22:11 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

THE WHY IS>>>>>>

1-— Most users don’t know or want to know how to right click a url link to open in new tab or new window

2-— don’t want to know how to use multiple tabs within a Firefox browser window

3-—refuse to use auto-hide for their taskbar

4-— could not in a million years download and install “Start 8” to modify Windows 8 to where it is supremely useable on their laptop. I do this for them

I am talking people over 55 I know and tutor and help. All the above explains why Windows 8 gets a bad rap. I promise you that if Best Buy and all computer manufaturers gave out a simple brochure on how to install a start button, that Windows 8 laptop sales would have been much higher and that Apple would not have gained as much ground in ipads and laptops

99% of the Windows 8 confusion and popular put downs it gets it from no start button
PLUS the first thing they see is that lock screen and tiles


37 posted on 04/02/2015 10:18:39 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: daniel1212

Furthermore>>>>>>

I have had customers (home users) rush back to Best Buy and return Windows 8 desktops and laptops before I could visit their house to install Start 8 and bypass the tiles completely. They refuse to wait a few days for me to come over and set up Windows 8 and explain it a bit. Its pitiful and beyond dumb! This is how Apple got more Apple users.

Microsoft screwed itself and the entire PC industry by not making it an easy one step option to restore the>
—start button
—the desktop
—to bypass tiles/apps and bypass the lock screen....
So that the average Windows user had 8 working the way they were used to seeing windows operate the same way it did in 7 / Vista/ XP/ Windows ME/ Windows 98 /


38 posted on 04/02/2015 10:32:45 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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