Well not having the start menu was not the only problem with Windows 8 CP. The ribbon in Windows Explorer froze my mouse. So I could not search for files or send short cuts to the desktop. And Windows 8 CP is very very slow and crashes.
Windows 8 CP runs perfectly on my 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450. Also as for Metro being completely useless on a netbook, I must disagree. Just one word for that comment, Downscale.
And like a lot of Windows users I cannot work without my start menu. On Windows 8 DP you could disable the Metro theme and get the Windows 7 start menu back.And this also disabled the ribbon. And also even if you did use the Metro theme,which I did not. You still had the Windows XP start menu while in the Metro theme thanks to Classic Shell.
Your still re-iterating things that we've already told you are untrue. The start menu is there, only in a different form, I even told you how to get to it, I even told you where the "All Programs" folder is (which btw, is not named All Programs, the folder is simply Start Menu\Programs).
The fact that you still maintain this "no start menu" facade tells me you didn't even try the steps I told you to get to your "All Programs" in metro. You even state "Even if you did use the Metro theme,which I did not", Then how do you know that there is no Start Menu in Windows 8 if you have never used Metro to begin with?
But you cannot disable the Metro theme at all on Windows 8 CP. There are two programs that will give you back the Windows 7 start menu.V Start brings back both the start orb and Windows 7 start menu in Windows 8 CP. But it does not do this automatically.
First you have find the hidden all programs folder, and link it to it, before this will work. And as it is hidden I could not find it. Start Menu 7 also brings back the Windows 7 start menu. But none of these two software will disable the Metro theme. So even though you will have the Windows 7 start menu,you will still have to have the Metro theme.
First of all. The All Programs folder is not "Hidden", I told you approximately where the User Profile's start menu resides, The Machine Programs folder is in "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu" (I believe that's where it is, I haven't had to look for it for a while now). Also it's not called the "All Programs" as you can see from the paths I posted, it is called the Start Menu folder just as all the previous versions had called it.
Secondly, they did
NOT include an official (as in a settings switch) off-switch for Metro in DP, That was a registry key to enable the Red Pill additions which just so happened to be already active in DP as they wanted public testing done for Metro, the reason it's not there in CP is because the red pill features are merged with CP and are now part of the overall operating system.
If not having the start menu was the only reason for not using Windows 8 CP. I would just install V Start and that would solve the problem. But just about everything is wrong with this version of Windows-Windows 8 CP as I mentioned.
Here we go again, re-iterating false statements that you yourself stated you have no knowledge of as you haven't used Metro at all and therefore have not striven to find yourself the very core point of your argument.
My advice is if you have not tried Windows 8 Consumer preview,don't bother. Or you will uninstall it like I did and go back to Windows 7. Andrea Borman.
My advice is to at least try Metro in CP for a while and then make your decision based on that rather than based on the FUD that's being spread around, It's not a bad UI and once you get used to it the speed it takes to navigate is the same if not faster than Windows 7. (After learning how it works, All the little quirks, etc. eg: Right-Clicking the start screen where there is no pinned tile and hitting "
All Apps" which gives you all your old Start Menu shortcuts complete with their Start Menu groups so you know what is where.)
You can also still search the Start Menu at any time by pressing Search on the Charms Bar and then typing your query and clicking Apps (if it doesn't default to it.) or by pressing Start and typing.
Also dazza9075, Technically, if you count Android (as it runs on top of a Linux Kernel), the Market Share for Linux is probably a little above <5%