A feature, many of us may have used since Windows 7/Vista. The new
start menu that enriches the users’ experience in launching programs and
searching for documents. According to some researches and analytics of
the customer experience program, this feature won’t be available in Win8.

Why? Microsoft has analyzed the statistics of the Customer Experience program and found out that most users don’t use the Start button and thus also not the start menu at all.

Umm. Proove me wrong but ain’t the start menu a useful thing in Windows and THE reason for a cclean desktop? Microsoft will have found out that most users attach their applications to the taskbar instead. Yeah right! 100 icons cluttered on the taskbar are much more convenient than the organized start menu? Sure thing.

Even the additional code that would have allowed 3rd party software designers to implement a start menu of their own has been removed. So the possibility to give Windows 8 a start menu, if desired, is now 100% gone. And thus, Windows 8 may probably fail as Windows Vista Second Edition.

Users of classical Computer systems may still keep Windows 7 and may let it live as long as XP probably.

Microsoft: here’s a hint for you: Don’t force users to like what you probably want. Let the user decide how he/she wants to experience Windows. So instead of removing the start menu in total, an option to selectively enable/disable it, would have been more convenient and thus allowing the user to choose.

Not to be misunderstood, but I guess, Microsoft wants to be more and more like Apple, where you also don’t have a start menu but instead a clutterbar with your apps on…

I wonder when the next patent fights between Apple and Microsoft will enroll…