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I have it enough with Windows, and it's acts! It ruined EVERYTHING!! Destroyed every single piece of Windows we ever got!! This isn't a Windows anymore but rather more of a plain copy of an iPad, Microsoft is so head to head with Apple that eventually it became one!!

It's not not enough that they had introduced to us a whole new system that we have to deal with, then they came up with this undesirable and unaccepted shit called metro, and just that, they transformed the desktop into a "software" and since when the desktop was application like calculator or paint? And now, THIS?! oh, no, they had crossed the line over here!!! What's wrong with you Microsoft?! What are you doing?!

I swear, if Microsoft continues like this there's no future for them in OS!!I was never at any attention of buying Windows 8 now I don't have any attention at LOOKING at it!!

This isn't Windows, this isn't anything we learned at school, this isn't anything we got used to, this isn't what we want!! Microsoft didn't know what we won't, and it seems it's not even interested of knowing!!

Well, I have my foot down I'm NOT UPGRADING, nor following anymore Windows 8 posts!! Shame on you Microsoft!!
And if by any chance Microsoft ON PURPOSE ended it's support for Windows 7, have in mind I'm changing to Apple for good, along with millions of other I believe!! At least Apple keeps it's identity and history!

I'm sorry for you… I can't be any fan or customer of Windows anymore…

Hi Mr.Onuora,

The START MENU is part of WINDOWS history.The peoples who loose theirs histories,loose theirs identities.The international efforts are being guided,for many years,to prevent any loss of this kind,because the world should be sad every time it should happen.I don’t wont the world to be sad,to be sad of loosing the START MENU.Of course,the history  is not just a museum piece,an immanent thing,but a dynamic process.If I should be MICROSOFT,I sould flourish the START MENU,making it apper as a “cool thing”,just as the young generation likes,even with some smiling ”bienvenidos” or changing the appearance from time to time etc.Above all these reasons,there is a little thing,but the most important of all: The START MENU is very,very simple to use,for poor and for rich,no regional, social,cultural discrimination,made to work forever.Why to complicate the life,instead of modernizing it? I think the START MENU has nothing to do with any vulnerability of the OS,that really could be a serious reason if it should be the case.

Many excuses for my poor English,I think I have exposed a Romanian thinking instead of an English one,but I haven’t used this idiom for many,many years.

Marin       

I think its stupid. You have people used to the start menu, taking some time just to get used to windows 7 with the button and here you want to take it out. Might as well take the whole dang iso out. Need to reset the kernel of windows 8 make it a little more easier to find the start button. Or even keep it in and make some modifications to it but don't take it out you will draw attention away from the product.

who knows what ms think. it seems most companys are powerhungry and just do what the want any way now a days. i hate the metro style i will not be geting windows 8 at all i just find it annoying . and i really dont see a good reason to switch from windows 7  to it i mainly play vid games and dont see the pint in switching i feel that alot of people are not going to stick with windows 8 the will either bootleag windows 7 or buy windows 7 and down grade but for the people that dont know anything about that and liked the other style the will go for macs . i dont ever plan to buy microsoft apps or games due to the fact the make you pay to play online wich is lame sense i am extreme picky on my games i only get like 2 or 3 diff games a year and im not going to pay to play a cuple games online once and a while lol. but i just dont see why the would want to get rid of the start button makes no sense. specially for my mother who is handicapped with one arm and cant see to well. i know theres speaking software and all. but it made it extremely hard for her to search aroudn to get to the apps she hated it so i put windows 7 back onthe only thing that i found that was good about windows 8 it have  vurtial drive and a built in unzip and booted up faster but i can easly deal with out that i  hate how the metrostile is and the lock screen the have if it gose to sleepmode or something its like the wanted to piss people off with that . you try and put you password in but u have to get the stupid lock screen thing off then put the pw i dont fn under stand that why put something liek that there to make it more annoying   and the operating system coast an arm and a leg there a rippoff wtf do the coast sooo much the coast more then a computer it selff you better off just bying some computer from walmart lol then a operating system now a days and the say windows 8 is going to be more then the others for something thats going to annoy people i dont think a operating system should be more then 100 bucks

Hard to believe the MS has got this so wrong. The ability to boot into the familiar desk top should be held as essential, particularly so for users coming in from XP (still about 30% of users) Vista (still about 14% of users) not to mention Win-7 users.

The Metro interface is fine for tablets, but a bit of a bother for mouse and keyboard user. Yes, Metro navigation via the traditional hardware is doable, but that is about all that can be said.

I can't help but wonder what is driving MS to do this – perhaps there is some good reason that to this point has not been exposed.

Hope MS will reconsider.

Bill Scheer