It's a bit off-topic, but you can actually make the window larger than 80 characters if you want. You cannot expand it beyond the maximum amount of characters h

It's a bit off-topic, but you can actually make the window larger than 80 characters if you want. You cannot expand it beyond the maximum amount of characters horizontally but you can increase that to anything you want; it's not limited to 80, really. :) More on-topic: I don't quite hate the Windows 7 start menu, but it could be made better. Unfortunately, Microsoft chose not to improve on a good concept and, in my opinion, ruin things with their new interace. It is one of the main reasons I don't want to switch to Windows 8. I've been a Linux user at home for a long time now, though, it's thankfully only my work laptop that I need to have Windows on. I have a game computer that has Windows XP and will probably be upgraded to Windows 8 but I couldn't really care less about the interface there: I just want to start games on that machine, nothing else.