I fear the new start screen will get just as messy as the old start menu did. In fact, the lack of folders or popups from the start menu will mean a lot of horizontal scrolling will be needed for traditional desktops.
|-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Craig van Nieuwkerk |Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 10:09 AM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: Win8 Release Preview | | | |On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) |<andrew.coa...@microsoft.com> wrote: | | | I'm not sure I get the yearning for a start menu. Maybe I use it differently |from others, but the metro screen lays out my commonly used apps nicely, and |anything else I need I can find just by typing the first couple of letters of its name. |The metro screen comes to the front when I hit the Windows button (like the |start menu does in 7) and all my keyboard shortcuts work (and then some). | | | | |I agree with you. The start menu had run it's course. Think of it like this, once you |have more than half a dozen programs installed navigating the start menu |becomes a nightmare. Trying to navigate through multiple menu levels, |remember which option was in which folder. It is painful. The most efficient way |to use the start menu is to click on it and type the name of what you want to run. |Type 'word' and Microsoft word will pop up, type 'Control Pa..' and the control |panel will pop up. This is exactly how the new start screen works. Cut out the |rubbish multi level menus and just type what you want. It's so easy. You can |navigate manually with the mouse, which is painful. But no more painful than the |current start menu, just different. | |Craig
