My Perspective On The New Start Menu

[Anonymous]

Thanks !
And, nice to see you here again.

[Anonymous]

You as well my friend. Ever since landing an IT job a few years ago I’ve been getting pretty busy. Currently I work in HP Enterprise Services. Right now I’m a Subject Matter Expert in our Mobility Division (MDM + Blackberry). Soon enough I hear they are going to split the consumer and enterprise markets.

Since the release of Hyper-V on Windows 8 I’ve often wondered what tangible advantage Windows Server has now a days over its workstation counterpart. With the slashing of prices coming down for Solid State Drives I can get either the client or server OS to boot up in 10 seconds or less on my machine, so performance really isnt an issue any more. When it comes down to it, application compatability is the king, so I’m left wondering if I’m actually better off running Windows 8 as my host OS and server in a VM on Hyper-V/VMware.

[Anonymous]

i just hate it
i installed classic shell which is working nicely

now its perfect OS ever 😀

[Anonymous]

I’m closer to aviv00’s perspective here then halladayrules; while I highly value halladayrules for his knowledge and insight on Windows system internals, and I don’t ‘hate‘ the Windows/Server 10 Start Menu the way aviv00 might — I do regard it as huge step backward in form that follows function interface design with respect to this interface component.

Tiling Metro/Modern application and normal shortcuts on a Start Menu is functionally inefficient; you end up having to visually scan and move your mouse a lot further to accomplish very little, and this is little more then replication of the primitive interface that is the ‘Start Screen‘ in miniature with all it’s antecedent issues and limitations.

The Start Menu in Windows 7 and prior, and all UNIX window managers that offer a similar interface component offer the option to organize your shortcuts, hard, and soft links heuristically; Windows 10 offers little more than a crude, flat, pile of links — with only simplistic linear organization at best. Worse, there is no configuration option it to have a heuristically organized portion of the Start Menu.

The notion of live active tiles is as old as Windows XP’s ‘Active Desktop‘, that was later mutated and regurged as the Widgets platform on Windows 7. I see absolutely no benefit in having this sort of capability on an interface component that is hidden from view 99% of the time I’m using the OS at the cost of sacrificing heuristic organization of shortcuts, hard, and soft links.

[Anonymous]

Thanks!

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