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    Re: Features - QOTW: Will you be upgrading to Windows 8?

    it really does not matter to me that i had to spend a couple of quid to have a start menu to be honest. there are free choices out there too. im on everybody's side here that the start menu should be included in windows but its an easy cheap fix. Besides i dont think i have actually used the start menu anyway. device manager and other control panel options is right click bottom left on windows 8. It might not have a start menu but once you start using 8 you find its not actually that important.

    There are negatives like every other product on the market and to me there is so many good features that the bad just do not ruin the experience. I dont have an SSD yet too so the boost in speed is very nice.

    You had to install third party products for pretty much everything on windows 7 so i don't understand the arguments some people have. Annoying but not a reason to hate it.

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    Re: Features - QOTW: Will you be upgrading to Windows 8?

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    You had to install third party products for pretty much everything on windows 7 so i don't understand the arguments some people have.
    You don't *have* to pay for and install third party products for a *lot* of software. For example, you don't *have* to buy a 3rd party file manager, or a web browser, or a media player, or a whole heap of codecs, or a text editor, or a calculator, or printing support, or multitasking support, or multi-user handling, or multi-threading support. These are rudimentary features which are bundled with the OS so it has at least a basic standard of tools and usability most people will find useful and get by with for those jobs, that line of what people expect their basic OS comes with always changes, but the more core the feature is to the OS (program finder/starter in this case, is very core), the more likely its loss will irk people, and so less likely it's going to get cut out. When you *must* start buying *core* OS utilities because it was intentionally cut out of the OS for executive ambition, that's a serious software regression and annoys people.
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    Re: Features - QOTW: Will you be upgrading to Windows 8?

    Im not disagreeing with you at all, if i didnt have the opportunity to test windows 8 at work then i probably would not have bought windows 8 for a while because it had no start menu and i agree you should not have to install a 3rd party product for something like the start menu but the more you use 8 the more you see that there are other ways to access the features which i feel are much easier than via start menu on 7.

    If you right click at the bottom left of the screen on windows 8 start then you have device manager, control panel, power option, run, search, disk management etc. so the reason i use the start menu except opening applications or files are so much simpler to access than windows 7. The more you use 8 the more you see that its actually not as shocking as you first thought and the features are there in a way but its not the way you know.

    Its a steep learning curve and it is frustrating but everything has to change at some point, not happy that the most recognised feature of windows imo has been removed but its easily worked around if you need it.

    Classic shell is another good alternative if you need the start menu and its free.

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    Re: Features - QOTW: Will you be upgrading to Windows 8?

    I was playing about with it on laptops at my local JL store where you use trackpad. Didn't like it... I think with touch monitor it might have been a different experience.

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