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Re:The overlooked issue of Windows 8 by rammark on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @12:37PM (#5751994)
when I want something all it takes is a single keypress and to start typing. No navigating an arbitrary hierarchy of menus where how things are filed made sense at the time they were filed. It just finds the damn thing

Wasn't this available in the Win7 (and maybe Vista) start menu?

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Re:The overlooked issue of Windows 8 by LeonidasXIV on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @01:19PM (#5752315)
This is also available in GNOME 3 (and previously you could use tools like Gnome-Do, Quicksilver or Kupfer). Quite useful, I think.
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Re:The overlooked issue of Windows 8 by brudgers on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @01:00PM (#5752171)
Yes, but it wasn't obvious. The groovy corduroy paisley bell bottom paradigm of the 1970's was front and center - I think the search came in with Seven, but I skipped Vista.

And scrolling with the mouse wheel when I insist on using Windows 8 in the old paradigm is much better than clicking through a menu tree.

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