Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1

Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by tdicola on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @02:51PM (#7518023)

Also very annoying to be thrown out of your app when you just want to run a calculator or something small. Even more annoying when that calculator has to run full screen (or you have to waste time snapping it to some side).

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by stackcollision on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:04PM (#7518129)

I haven't actually used Windows 8 because I've heard it's so terrible. What I don't understand is this:

> In the future, all of Microsoft’s Universal Windows apps will also run in a window.

What does this mean? Are you telling me that every program I run in Windows 8 is full screen? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The OS is called WINDOWS.

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by vertex-four on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:17PM (#7518213)

Every Metro app is full-screen, every normal Windows app runs in the desktop. It's remarkably annoying to have both paradigms forced on you.

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by sliverstorm on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:19PM (#7518233)

When I want a calculator, I type:

Windows Key -> "calc" -> Enter

Viola, the classic Windows calculator.

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by mullingitover on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:14PM (#7518637)

Even easier: use the url bar as a calculator. Google has handled math as a seach for a while now, and it's pretty good [1]. No need to leave the browser.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=y%3Dx%5E2&oq=y%3Dx%5E2

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by sliverstorm on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:26PM (#7518734)

Sure, but one is not always in the browser ;)

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