Microsoft should stick to its guns and keep the Start button gone

Op-ed: If Redmond wants Metro apps to succeed, it needs education, not capitulation.

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riverlaw[/url]":226q06ya]I installed win 8 for games. I had to google how to shut it down. That was awesome. Way to force crap on you customers just so you can catch up on touch screen apps.

You couldn't find the power button on your case?

Microsoft said almost no one used the shutdown in the start-menu and almost exclusively used the one on their case. Congrats, you're unique.

 

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DSF1942[/url]":l6y5x8vh]

Katana314[/url]":l6y5x8vh]And before you complain about remote desktop: No, when I SSH into a Linux machine, I do not know off the top of my head what the command is to turn it off.

>>shutdown

or

>>poweroff

Last time I used Linux, it took more than just the command "shutdown". I had to use the man pages to figure out which parameters to send to it, and if you did it wrong, it would default to waiting 5 minutes before shutting down..

"warning, root has initiated shutdown, you have 5 minutes".. WTF?! well.. something like that, it's been almost a decade.

The worst part is it wouldn't let me cancel it once started, so I had to wait the entire 5 minutes. Unless I decided to change virtual consoles and initiate yet another shutdown with the correct "now" parameter.

I assume they've changed it by now.

 

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Bengie25[/url]":k71zjjve]

riverlaw[/url]":k71zjjve]I installed win 8 for games. I had to google how to shut it down. That was awesome. Way to force crap on you customers just so you can catch up on touch screen apps.

You couldn't find the power button on your case?

Microsoft said almost no one used the shutdown in the start-menu and almost exclusively used the one on their case. Congrats, you're unique.

Microsoft says a lot of things. Many of them aim to further MIcrosoft's own objectives and self-interest. Like how they also said that nobody wanted the start menu back, right up until they decided to give in and bring it back.

The idea that nobody uses the shutdown button in Windows is laughably stupid.

Not that nobody "wanted" it, but that nobody used it. Based on feedback, almost no one used the start button for anything other than search.

Guess where they got that info? You know when Windows's installation prompts you if you want to give feedback on your usage patterns, everyone who is complaining opted out of sharing their usage patterns.

It's called "voting". If you don't want to vote, then don't complain when the voters vote for something you don't want.