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shovenose wrote:XP: It was good 9 years ago. Let's move on

That's exactly what I plan on doing...as soon as I can find a way to get FSX working on either openSUSE or ubuntu

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Windows 8 probably is designed for tablet PC with touch screen. There's no start menu in Win8 (you can enable the start menu by editing the registry though). Instead, we have a "start screen". This is what it shows if you press the win key. I'm not used to the "start screen" yet. And as far as I know, I'm not the only one who does not know where the shutdown and reset buttons are hidden. Anyway, this is just a preview version. It even isn't a beta version. The final version could be a far cry from this one.


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I downloaded it and I'm gonna burn it later and install it on a spare PC...then I'll review it!

Cool. I've already deleted it.

No start menu? 0.o I hope M$ fix that for the final release.

Seems Microsoft did that on purpose. o.O According to their offical blog, fewer and fewer people use the start menu(I don't think so though). So they think it's about time to abandon the start menu.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011 ... -menu.aspx

duckula wrote:Cool. I've already deleted it.

Why?

duckula wrote:Seems Microsoft did that on purpose. o.O According to their offical blog, fewer and fewer people use the start menu(I don't think so though). So they think it's about time to abandon the start menu.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011 ... -menu.aspx

That's bullshit. The start menu is the one thing that makes Windows really unique from Mac OS...
Well, We'll see what happens when I install Windows 8.

shovenose wrote:

duckula wrote:Cool. I've already deleted it.

Why?

Because I don't like the new "start screen".

Im going to be sticking between windows 7 and linux distros for the next few years it seems.