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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by colmvp on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:21PM (#7512489)
Why do people even need to use Start button? I use Alfred on my Mac and it's significantly faster to type the name of the application instead of navigating the Start Menu. Granted, I haven't used Windows since XP.
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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by jonathansizz on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:57PM (#7512638)
Why not have a hierarchical menu and a search box? Sometimes I can't remember the name of a program I haven't used in a while, so I click around until I find it.

I really like the way KDE does things: favourites list with search box above, with an applications list a click away.

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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by bane on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @09:13PM (#7512944)
Do you always remember the name of all your programs so you can type them?
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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by nightski on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @09:57PM (#7513092)
Because the start button does the same thing as Alfred on Win7/8?
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