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> the vanished start menu Frankly what the H... where they thinking? It made absolutely no sense at all. I still don't understand who and why it was approved.
by aikah 11y ago
> the vanished start menu
Frankly what the H... where they thinking? It made absolutely no sense at all. I still don't understand who and why it was approved. Nobody I know, likes this whole metro/modern UI thing on desktop, NONE. X years later I'll still be complaining about this fiasco, windows 10 or not, it wasted the time and the energy of so many people I can't believe it.
Death threats are obviously unacceptable but I hope someday someone write a blog post or a book about that single stuff and the process that led to that insane mistake. Was it Balmer? Synofsky? someone else? I don't know but for god sake, people work on Windows like 9 hours a day, you can't change stuff just because it looks cool on a tablet...
- yuubi 11y agoPet theory: someone at MS saw Apple taking a 30% cut of app store sales. Hmm, people seem to tolerate gatekeepers on mobile/tablet more than on desktop. So the obvious answer is to get into that business. But the competition has already got trained users. No worries, just make the next version of Windows work like MS tablets and phones. People take whatever they're told is the upgrade, so shortly after the upgrade there'll be a market of people ready to buy Windows tablets and phones, with MS getting a cut of sales. A while later, it didn't work out that way and 8.1 came out.