Windows 10: Microsoft Confirms the Windows 10 Start Menu Is Getting New Features

The Start Menu, the way it's going, is a whole other 'animal' of a different breed.
The reason they started this 'Continuum' thing is so it would run as a separate UI, in and of itself, completely isolated from Explorer, on whatever device. There is too many things that go wrong when trying to hack around it with certain tweaks.
It's also the reason I don't third party menu applications are going 'play' nicely with or beside it.

 

Going maybe 1 cm. taller is all that does. It also increases/widens the right side. Sorry, but it absolutely suck's big time. Sorry, but Stardock's Start8 spoiled me. Furthermore, apparently Microsoft needs to learn a few lesson's from Stardock.

 

I'm interested to see what changes MS makes in the next build. I'm happy with the Win 10 start menu now but changes are welcome.

 

I'm still using W7 for work and I'm pretty happy with the Start Menu there. I don't see any new features that I might use as I already don't use a lot of them. I certainly do not need live tiles there, I don't care for the start screen, and I certainly disagree with the statement that the Start Menu in W10 "is pretty decent" - I think it's awful.

 

If your happy with 7 you don't have to upgrade to 10. I would stay with the OS your happy with.

 

Silly question, Why should they be built in? Why should Microsoft build something into the OS just because you want it. Why not let the third party people come up with some cool ideas to enhance the users experience. It really shouldn't be up to Microsoft to make everyone happy. . .well maybe me at least. . .*Smile. . .then may be not. . .*Wink

 

The Start Menu in versions prior to b9926 were better than the current one (IMO).

 

I believe they were better too just a crazy default that couldn't be changed,

With the awesome sells of 8-8.1 that would be my first guess as to why no options = Dismal sells *Wink
Not everyone wants to gather all of the third party crap to make a os bearable and allot are not free,
So where's the incentive to upgrading when you like where your at without any third party crap to fill the void ? just because it's free *Tongue
Nope.

 

totally agree with you there

 

I still believe they just should have added the Start screen to Windows 7 for Metro and updated Explorer and we probably wouldn't even be talking about Windows 10.

I also doubt that much will happen to the Start Menu, it always seems Microsoft's talks a lot and does very little. I suspect 3rd party apps like ClassicMenu and Start8 (or is it Start10) will still be usuable and a welcome work-around for some.

I hope they put Cortana and Search at the bottom of the menu (as in 7) and take it off the taskbar.

 

Oh, poor babies might have to fork out some monies. .OMG. . .don't you mean you. . .*Biggrin. . .It really doesn't bother me if it is something I like. . .oh I forgot all you folks really like the free Classic Shell. . .Whatever.

 

I agree and that's exactly what I fed them - keep it simple, keep the two GUIs separate - desktop users will use the desktop, and modern users will use the modern side. I like the ability to switch between the two, but they don't have to merge.

Modern apps don't have to be windowed, Start menu doesn't have to be modern - the only place this is an 'issue' is the desktop. Phone and tablet users won't use the older desktop GUI and many people have become accustomed to the modern side on desktop and laptop machines.

Does this present a maintenance headache for MS. I don't think so - it's not as if they were trying to merge DOS and NT into a single kernel.

The user chooses which GUI they want to use - how hard is that? I think you're right - someone at MS is saying "The GUIs must converge for the Universal Interface to work".

Isn't that the idea of a Universal Interface? It sits on top of the OS and can be anything a developer wants it to be.
Windows as a Service! - It is a service, always has been, it provided a graphical user interface to the operating system.

Bill
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Hi there

probably too late now - but had Windows developed the GUI separately from the Video server as per Linux (used to be called the X-Server) then it's a simple matter to design any number of GUI's that would simply be called by the X-Server video service.

There are zillion quite common GUI's for Linux such as KDE, GNOME, MATE, etc etc. You can install one or ALL of them - or even NONE if you just want a cmd line type of machine.

Windows GUI's could then easily be "modularized" for people's differing requirements.

The main problem with full screen only operation on modern apps is then you would need a desktop version and a modern version if you want to use the same app on both platforms. Actually even on a tablet (surface pro 3) I like having Windowed applications - especially if you are using things like office where you need to cut and paste contents from say an EXCEL spreadsheet into a word doc or power point presentation --and what about translating a document from one language into another one -- not easy to do if you can only have one screen open and viewable at a time.

Some items like watching video are essentially single tasks and lend themselves to full screen operation - but even web surfing becomes a pain if you can't display several pages simultaneously.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Microsoft Confirms the Windows 10 Start Menu Is Getting New Features - Softpedia

This might be worth trying to read if I could get Google to translate from Russian! Softpedia strikes again!

 

In perfect English in IE.