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Windows Start Menu Won't Return Until 2015

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday June 04 2014, @11:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the Interface-Resurrection dept.

Hugh Pickens writes:

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 04 2014, @04:31PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday June 04 2014, @04:31PM (#51195)

    "and have never tried Linux"

    I'd call shenanigans its 2014, and hasn't been 1994 for a long time.

    None the less the most striking observation is windows and OS tightly marry the GUI/desktop environment and the OS. The idea that you would be "permitted" on "your" computer to have an experience that looks like XP with osx under the hood is utterly unthinkable in fact its a thought crime with those people.

    Given that background, there are two linux groups, one which tries to push the same outlook on life in linux, where "their little OS" will only and forever exclusively support Gnome (or kde) for no apparent reason other than they hate our freedom. The other group, Debian and a bunch of others, "permits" you to run whatever GUI/WM/DE you want on top of your OS. How nice of them.

    So you're better off installing Debian, which from a technical standpoint is surely the most superior OS of them all, and then experiment with any or all of the GUI/WM/DE until you find the best personal fit.

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday June 06 2014, @12:48AM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Friday June 06 2014, @12:48AM (#51993) Journal

    So you're better off installing Debian, which from a technical standpoint is surely the most superior OS of them all

    When did Debian switch to rolling release? ;)

    • (Score: 1) by hendrikboom on Saturday June 07 2014, @04:46PM

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 07 2014, @04:46PM (#52660) Homepage Journal

      If I understand the term correctly, Debian testing and sid have always been rolling releases. New stuff appears as soon as it is ready. I update my Debian system at least weekly.

      Debain stable is another matter.

      -- hendrik