![]() ![]() Worse, they consumed all that space with spectacular inefficiency, leaving tremendous amounts of unutilized space in favor of big, empty blocks that were fine for fingers, but resulted in a dearth of information density and a vast amount of superfluous scrolling with a mouse. When opened, Windows 8’s apps expanded to fill the whole screen, engulfing even the taskbar. These monstrosities tossed everything glorious about desktop computing to the curb to splay themselves upon the altar of touch-friendliness. The design of Windows Store apps was another. Windows Store apps mime desktop programsīut the Start menu’s absence was only one of Windows 8’s great failings. And if you don’t dig all the Live Tiles, it’s easy to unpin them and stock the Start menu with shortcuts to traditional desktop software. ![]() My colleague Mark Hachman nailed it on the head in his Windows 10 pre-review when he said to consider Windows 10’s Start menu more as a dashboard than a launching pad.Įither way, the Start menu’s back. Sure, Windows 10’s Start menu isn’t quite the one you’re used to, acting instead like a mash-up of Windows 7’s Start menu with Windows 8’s Start screen, replete with Live Tiles and Windows Store apps. ![]()
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