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Mary Jo Foley reports at ZDNet that according to sources who've had good track records on Windows information, Microsoft won't be delivering a new Start Menu for Windows 8 with its coming Windows 8.1 Update 2, after all. "Up until recently, Microsoft was hoping to make a new "Mini" Start Menu part of a second update to Windows 8.1," says Foley. "Windows 8.1 Update 2 was and still is, last I heard slated to arrive in August of this year." Microsoft's operating systems group has decided to hold off on delivering a Microsoft-developed Start Menu until Threshold, the next "major" release of Windows. Threshold, which may or may not ultimately be called Windows 9, is expected to be released in April 2015.
The original Windows 8 interface lacked the Start Menu, a familiar component of previous versions of the operating system, replacing it with the live tile-driven Start screen. Many users didn't like the change, and some PC manufacturers and developers offered ways to bring back versions of the old Start Menu. Microsoft appeared to relent at Build when it unveiled the revised Start Menu, enhanced with Windows Modern UI improvements.
(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Wednesday June 04 2014, @03:33PM
I agree with Vanderhoth and stress the Linux Mint Distro. You have a choice of "looks" from Gnome, KDE, XFCE and it comes out of the box pretty easy with later ability to tweak. Kind of like a tiptronic shift where you can do nothing, tap, or go full monty. I use to use Ubuntu till Unity came out. Fora while I tried various Distros (Fedora, SuSe), but settled on Mint for its easy. I've been a solid MS consumer (I develop on Windows VS) for ages so I know where you are coming from in taking a look.
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 1) by hendrikboom on Saturday June 07 2014, @04:41PM
The more things stay the same, the more they look different.