Microsoft makes tweaks to Windows 11 Start Menu for Insiders but stops short of mimicking Windows 10

The Register ^ | Dec 2, 2021 | Richard Speed

[dayglored]

More on the ever-evolving Windows 11. Seems like folks would like it better if it was more like.... Windows 10. Color me shocked.

[dayglored]

Windows 10/11 ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[dayglored]

Personally I still prefer what's called the "Windows 2000 Classic" desktop:

• classic Start Menu
• classic Task Bar
• ability to pack lots of information onto the screen (not all the empty whitespace that makes sense on a cellphone but not on a computer monitor)
• absence of pop-ups: notifications, widgets, banners, assorted crapola

But I'm a Luddite -- I just want to get some work done, not play with a desktop computer that thinks it's a misbegotten hybrid of a cell phone and a video game.

I figure on giving Win11 a wide berth. I've accepted Win10 because my dayjob requires it. But Win11, in my opinion, won't be ready for real use for at least a year at the rate they're going.

[Paladin2]

THIS is better than Linux Mint?

[for-q-clinton]

But I love the windows 11 start menu. It’s way better than windows 10. I guess everyone just wants what they used to have. They complained when Windows 7 came out. Then complained when windows 8 changed it. Then complained when windows 10 changed it. And now I guess they are complaining again. I actually LOVE windows 11 start menu. I thought they actually did it right.

[for-q-clinton]

Oh nevermind...this is the register they complain about anything Microsoft does.

I didn’t think anyone was really complaining about windows 11 start menu. But maybe that’s why MS is changing it...they aren’t used to people not complaining.

[Bikkuri]

I stopped being M$ BetaTester after Win7 (XP-W7).

[Bob434]

i never complained about windows 7 menu- infact, i revert back all my windows 10 menus to 7

[Sparticus]

I pretty much stopped using the start menu with Windows 8. Way too cluttered and messy. I just start typing the name of the application I want to use in the address bar and Windows finds it for me way faster than I can find it myself.

[martin_fierro]

[Bikkuri]

"absence of pop-ups: notifications, widgets, banners, assorted crapola"

😁

[Bikkuri]

What dummy said that?

[for-q-clinton]

See...keep reading what I wrote ;-)

[for-q-clinton]

All those that like software.

[dayglored]

> Oh nevermind...this is the register they complain about anything Microsoft does.

While that's true, they also complain about anything Apple does, too, and nearly everything that the Linux community does. It's their job to poke holes. Surely you don't want to read only glowing, fatuous, paeans all the time?

> I didn’t think anyone was really complaining about windows 11 start menu. But maybe that’s why MS is changing it...they aren’t used to people not complaining.

To be honest, I think it's still way too early to judge whether the majority of users are going to find Win11 (and its form of start menu) preferable to Win10. Like any other data set, you have to throw out the 10% at each end of the spectrum -- the 1/10 who are die-hard fanbois, and the 1/10 who are die-hard complainers. It's the middle 80% that makes or breaks a release.

[immadashell]

Bring back XP!

[dayglored]

> i revert back all my windows 10 menus to 7

Whenever possible, I revert my entire desktop back to Win2K. Seriously. It's easy in Win7, it's mostly possible in Win10. I don't run Vista or Win8 period, so I don't know how tough those would be.

[dayglored]

Clippy!!!

[dayglored]

> Bring back XP!

WinXP never went away, you just have to hunt around to find a legit, non-malware installation .ISO file. Minimum of SP3. Put it up behind a real good firewall, or run it as a VM, and get all the Windows Update patches that are available.

And then never, ever, connect your WinXP machine to the internet ever again. :-)

[markman46]

How about win 3.1 or win 95