With Sinofsky gone and Start8 selling well, will MS add the start menu back?

Re:With Sinofsky gone and Start8 selling well, will MS add t... by MatthewPhillips on Friday November 16, 2012 @08:59AM (#4793845)

You never could "just start typing" when on the desktop. You either had to click the start button or the windows key. That's still true in Windows 8.

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Re:With Sinofsky gone and Start8 selling well, will MS add t... by gregd on Friday November 16, 2012 @09:03AM (#4793864)

I didn't say you could. But the start menu was always one click away. Now it's a hot corner, a click, and typing to find the program, away.

Well except I bought and paid for Start8 and I've been way happier with it installed.

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Re:With Sinofsky gone and Start8 selling well, will MS add t... by stinos on Friday November 16, 2012 @09:41AM (#4794012)

"But the start menu was always one click away. Now it's a hot corner, a click, and typing to find the program"

I do not have Windows 8 but just reading this makes it sounds like two methods that are exactly the same?

  - moving the mouse to the start orb == moving the mouse to a hot corner
  - clicking the orb == clicking the hot corner
  - typing == typing

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Re:With Sinofsky gone and Start8 selling well, will MS add t... by drharris on Friday November 16, 2012 @09:22AM (#4793942)

Or just hit the windows key (or Ctrl-Esc) and type. Why do people like to click so much?

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