Amiga OS?

Windows 8 does have a start menu, it's just takes up the whole screen.
In windows 7 explorer, pressing 'alt' will give you the old menus back - and the toolbars were moved to the start menu.
No idea where they went in WIndows 8. My experience with windows 8 primarily involved getting a refund.

They don't remove features, they just move them to somewhere less convenient.....

To be fair, users leaving windows, are likely to have a few more brain cells than those sticking with windows 8. Just saying...... ;)

My mac only has one button, you insensitive clod!

Are you sure you want to go with NT though? I heard that Windows 98 is better for games.....

= the GPU on an AMD A10

Less toxic indeed. I'd personally prefer more renewables, combined with increases in energy efficiency, over nuclear any day. We've already had one windscale here in the UK, I'd prefer to not increase the chances of another. If accidents can be caused by nothing more than a stuck valve, human error, or a natural disaster; then I'd prefer to be a NIMBY in this case.....

Now they're just hipsters of the sea, living on a shellfish only diet, spending their entire income on in-app purchases for the latest freemium games. Damn those hipsters whales, ruining gaming for the rest of us....

The same number of people, just with fewer limbs.

Be careful about saying that in public, you might get fracked....

That's why I tamper-proof my phone with Windows 8, and a picture of Justin Bieber for the locked screen.

Well how about that great value train service we now have? For the cheap price of £182, you can have a return fare between bournemouth and birmingham (which I was recently forced to pay) The flights to Belfast and back only cost £35 FFS!

Using a daily mail article to back up your argument, is no better than using the bible to prove the age of the universe.

FWIW, Have you tried city-link recently? They don't even leave cards when they fail to arrive for 3 days running, and then they expect you to drive 15miles to their nearest office. Great for those who have a car, but for me, walking a few hundred meters to the local post office is far more convenient than a £50 taxi trip.

Sorry, but pointy jabs at OSes are well deserved in this case (ex-film industry guy here). Linux is used extensively within the film industry, but each studio requires a small army of linux gurus to patch and modify the OS and kernel just to keep the OS from constantly falling over. Whilst none of the gurus complain (they get paid a healthy salary), it's a real shame that an artist simply cannot perform these tweaks themselves (recompiling a kernel is not for the faint of heart!). You'll also find a few Mac pros knocking about, but there the problems are just plain ridiculous. The lag between new OpenGL version & GPU features, v.s. the adoption into OS X is just insane. If you're predominantly linux, with a few hundred mac OS X boxes, it's kinda nice to be able to provide the same toolset to users on both platforms (As an R&D programmer, my role was to help improve the performance of art tools). Sadly, if you have OS X in the mix, this becomes extremely unpleasant. You end up with the high performance version on linux (leveraging any GPU feature available to give the artists the ability to work on scenes with hundreds of millions of polygons), and then you have the crippled OS X version that craps out after 10 million (even though the GPU used in both machines is identical). Windows isn't without it's problems (being effectively stuck with a single user->single computer mindset), but at least you can still exploit the underlying hardware. The reality is, if you're a creative professional, working with computers is still a massive ball-ache. It's a shame that people who write the OSes haven't really put much consideration into figuring out how their users actually use the things.