How the software giant who originally touted the Start Menu as “the place you start” with great smugness seems to get this wrong over and over is a real mystery. Have they run out of ideas at Redmond or could it be they really do hate a good start menu?

Following on to Kevin Townsend’s post Windows 10 makes Google look like it still does no evil(love that title) – there is much in Win10 to be concerned about; some of which has already made its way into Win7.

When Windows 8 came out, I was stunned that anyone on a development team could think removing the Start menu was a good idea. In addition, closing a new Tile/Modern/Metro App on a 27-inch monitor no longer required that painful gesture of clicking on a X. Now you could simply click on some nether region at the top of a borderless window, hold down the left mouse button and with great force try to simulate throwing the window down to the ground. Removing that X also cleared up some much-needed space on that 27-inch monitor, a “Win-Win”!