http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/2/557...top-experience

Also reposting http://www.modacity.net/forums/showt...l=1#post614375


Also also just posting that this new start menu looks like the inbred child of metro and the old start menu. #1 please ditch the fugly windows 8 flat style. #2 please for the love of god support consistency with useful shortcuts to standard areas on a computer that are default on every system and cannot be disabled or accidentally removed by the user (Computer, Network, Control Panel, Devices and Printers, <name_of_currently_logged_in_user_root>)

I still don't understand why they still refuse to highlight the usefulness of tiles if done right. For tiles to be successful, everything needs to be live - like tile widgets. The tile for the weather app needs to show the current conditions (which you click on to get the full forecast). The mail app should give you the latest message subject and/or sender (and clicking on it should bring you straight to the message). The Music tile should be the "now playing" song and album art (background), and it should have live controls for pause, stop, skip, or jumping to playlist. Twitter should display the latest tweet. Basically, they NEED to turn the start menu into a combination of jump lists, notification menus, and a dashboard. They've failed to do that for two years with Windows 8.

Edit: Oh I also really like the new CEO. He's a pretty cool guy. He's from the only successful part of Microsoft (the business sector) which makes up over 80% of Microsoft's profits and doesn't fuck around. If you haven't checked out their enterprise products, they're really awesome. They know what's up. Unlike the clusterfuck Windows division.