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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by ghshephard on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @08:41PM (#7520080)
Don't people on windows launch apps by hitting the windows key and then typing the first few letters of the program they want to run?

They changed this around windows 7 where you don't even need to hit "r" for run, It took me about two years to retrain myself on Windows 7 that when I wanted to start cmd, that I didn't have to type [WIN]+'r'+'cmd', and could just type [WIN]+'cmd'.

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by Ntrails on Thursday April 03, 2014 @08:26AM (#7522317)
on Win7 I cannot remember the last time I actually navigated the start menu to launch a program. It's either on quicklaunch (pinned if you prefer) or win + search.

Every time I create a VM with 8 to try and use it, I last about a week and give up.

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