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Comment Re:HP has the pull to get MS to fix windows by 8.2 (Score 1) 513

Really? This has to be explained to you? Some of us use more than one application simultaneously, often spreading out over multiple displays. In this case, starting new programs should not be a full screen focus grab.

I asked why you would need to see the active application and the open menu at the same time and you didn't provide me a situation

Using the mouse to ponderously scroll through piles of huge tiles on a huge display is tedious compared with a little menu in the corner.

Wouldn't the fact that the smaller menu has less items visible mean even more tedious scrolling?

Now if you don't like clicking through folders, I understand, but that is more the fault of vendors who insist on adding extra layers so as to get you to see their brand name regularly.

I love the false dichotomy that the Start Menu can be organized but the Start Screen can't

A nicely laid out start menu is far superior to any other convolution anyone has come up with.

Yeah pack it up for we have reached UI Utopia, anything else is a 'convolution'. Nevermind the fact that people were saying the same things about Windows XP's start menu when Windows 7 was in development

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Comment Re:HP has the pull to get MS to fix windows by 8.2 (Score 1) 513

You're right. When I look for Photoshop to start it, it makes no sense for it to be under 'Adobe', with InDesign and Premiere. They should all just be scattered at random in a big scrolling mass of tiles.

You can put Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere under a column called 'Adobe' with the Start Screen...

Comment Re:HP has the pull to get MS to fix windows by 8.2 (Score 2, Funny) 513

What is wrong with the Start Screen vs Start Menu?
The Start Screen can:

  • Fit more shortcuts on screen at once
  • No drilling through folders
  • Takes advantage of the whole screen (when do you ever need to see the active application and the start menu at the same time?).

Comment Re:production and development cost (Score 1) 333

China already has moved (or is moving) to Linux with Ubuntu Kylin http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/ubuntukylin As far as people in China still using Windows, the majority of them are pirated copies. That's why they want extended support, they won't buy Windows 8.1 or even 7 because they never bought XP in the first place.

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