8.1 cleaned up a lot of that, but it was still not ideal. Defaulting to using 'modern ui' for viewing pictures etc was just bad. Not having window border controls for mouse users was just bad. Too much key functionality hidden off screen. Unfortunately windows 8 was a step in mostly the wrong directions. Anyone who honestly looks at the windows 7 start menu has to acknowledge that it does too much, and does MUCH of it poorly. but the new one was also broken, better in some ways, but worse in most.īut they were looking for a solution to a definite problem. (And really the whole 'go full screen' was a mistake.

(how do I shutdown?) And the 'type one' quick search-launch functionality was now really clutzy switching to a full screen app for quick launch makes no sense. The problem with windows 8 was simply that the new locations were non-obvious. Nobody used it unless they had to, and browsing multiple levels of nested folders was clumsy. was clumsy in Windows 95 and all but useless in a modern PC. The win7 start menu sucks for real search.įinally. Having your whole search interface in a small popup in the corner that was liable to disappear on you at random was silly and useless. Where you want to find something that you don't know what its called, or to find a document. For example type cmd to launch command or pow to launch powershell, etc etc. you can still create taskbar menus and pin apps etc in win8. So they moved them (and also added them to right click start menu). No real need for it to be there relative to anywhere else.Ĭontrol panels same thing. They rightfully identified that there was a ton of functionality jammed into it, and that it was a shitty UI for most of it, while simultaneously its primary design driver was a vestigial hierarchical folder structure from Windows 95 that really was quite hideous and unusable, and rarely used.Įvery one used the start menu to shutdown, to get to control panels etc, to access frequently used and pinned apps, and to search. However, to be fair to MS, they didn't 'remove it' they revamped it. So why did you remove the start menu in windows 8?

Why does firefox open so many processes