Now that's something I can live with.

 

Awesome news. And its too late for April Fools so it must be true... Good thing they changed their mind.

 

As long as I can use that style start menu at my desktop but force the Windows button to show the full-screen start menu on my Surface Pro, we'll be happy.

The Windows 8/8.1 style start screen works great for a touchscreen like the Surface and I would hate to have to navigate this new menu on a touchscreen.

 

Yay!

 

I'll stick to Classic Shell.

 

Updated the OP with a more complete and better article.

 

Nice, but I wonder if they'll let you expand the amount of tiles on the menu.

 

Yes... This revolutionary feature was finally implement into the OS only after 6-months of arduous teeth pulling and tears shedding.

 

This I like and could deal with , is it worth getting 8.1 or is windows 9 due out this year ?

 

So they're just moving the live tiles to a smaller area in order to appease idiots who get confused by a full screen menu?

I hope this is optional. The start screen is perfect for me; I don't need to pretend I'm using Windows 7 in order to enjoy Windows 8.

 

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Originally Posted by coachmark2

As long as I can use that style start menu at my desktop but force the Windows button to show the full-screen start menu on my Surface Pro, we'll be happy.

The Windows 8/8.1 style start screen works great for a touchscreen like the Surface and I would hate to have to navigate this new menu on a touchscreen.

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Originally Posted by Spritanium

So they're just moving the live tiles to a smaller area in order to appease idiots who get confused by a full screen menu?

I hope this is optional. The start screen is perfect for me; I don't need to pretend I'm using Windows 7 in order to enjoy Windows 8.

These! Agreed!

 

Microsoft always does this, one step forward, two steps back.

 

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Originally Posted by Qu1ckset

This I like and could deal with , is it worth getting 8.1 or is windows 9 due out this year ?

According to the Verge article, this isn't apart of the 8.1 update coming out, so most likely will not be able to get it until Windows 9.

 

In case someone wants to watch it the keynote where this was announced can be found here: http://channel9.msdn.com/?wt.mc_id=build_hp

And our thread on it is here: http://www.overclock.net/t/1478475/microsoft-build-2014-keynote-and-news

 

I like it

 

As long as they don't still have the dumb fullscreeen metro apps I'm sold!

 

Yeah, hopefully Microsoft will let us keep the Metro start menu if we don't have a touchscreen. I have gotten used to it.

I would like to at least try the new start menu though.

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Originally Posted by Spritanium

So they're just moving the live tiles to a smaller area in order to appease idiots who get confused by a full screen menu?

I hope this is optional. The start screen is perfect for me; I don't need to pretend I'm using Windows 7 in order to enjoy Windows 8.

If they remove something you like, you simply don't have to buy and use it.

 

A proper start menu and the ability to run Win 8 apps in the desktop environment inside their own windows. Yes!! They took their sweat time but it looks like M$ got their head out of their behinds and will give their users what they want.

 

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the full-screen Start Menu and apps will still be around for those who want them.

A major Windows 8.1 update is coming later this month, but neither of the new features will make it into that refresh. They're likely to be a major selling point for the next version of Windows, thought to be called Windows 9.

That part of the article probably needs posting.

So they're giving users the choice of either the win8 metro start menu or the one pictured in the OP.

And these new features are most likely going to be for win9

 

An option to turn off Aero (Or Windows 8 version of Aero) the same way that Windows 7 can would be great.

 

I hope this is an optional update... I've gotten used to working with the start screen in windows 8.1, and windows 7 just looks old and un-appealing. The taskbar is there for a reason, and people can just pin their most used apps to that, i don't know why that is too hard for people to do...

 

Finally! Something I actually see myself using.

Although I would rather have the option to completely remove any trace of the tiled interface, hopefully that will be an option. If not then I'll stick to using StartIsBack.

 

WOOHOO! I will finally have a reason to upgrade to W8 now! To all the people who said that MS would never, ever listen to feedback and do this, please eat a healthy dish of CROW. The people spoke and the people is what pays MS's bills. Finally they dug their heads out of their butts and listened!

 

Too little, too late. If M$ had come out with this when Win 8 came out, I would have invested in copies of it instead of Win 7. I purchased three retail copies of Win 7 (only one is in use on my desktop machine; my notebook is using the OEM that came with it) once I saw what a disaster Win 8 was and I see no sense in replacing any of them with anything else until either I can no longer get compatible hardware or shortly before support ends early in 2020, especially since it meets my needs.