Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

Windows 7 Start Menu. Should It Go? « Tragicallyunhip

Windows 7 Start Menu. Should It Go? « Tragicallyunhip — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:45:22 GMT

Pingback from Windows 7 Start Menu. Should It Go? « Tragicallyunhip

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

RunTimeError — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:24:24 GMT

chuckb84:

Vista has the same idea as launching apps from Spotlight:

Start > Seach > start typing the name of the app you and hit enter.

Search based app launching works equally well in Mac and Windows.

------

I kind of like the Dock approach to opening and managing applications. In Vista, the only real app launching I do is from the Search box.

I used to customize the hell out of my XP (and pre XP) Start Menus: I'd delete shortcuts for apps I never used, and create a few folders for the ones I'd use all the time. Vista has made customizing the Start Menu programs list damn near impossible for some reason so I'm stuck using search to open apps.

With the Dock in OS X I can keep the icons for the apps I use all the time and I know which ones are running. For the apps I don't use all the time, there is Spotlight, or Shift+Apple+A for the Applications folder, of I can create a Stack to the Application folder...

I think MS is on the right track for the taskbar in Win7 - but it's going to take a few more versions to get it "just-so".

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

Waethorn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:17:01 GMT

....not soon enough either:

blogs.zdnet.com/security

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

Waethorn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:16:00 GMT

@robertsjoe:

Apple's plans for initially locking down iPhone development to web gadgets in Safari are already dead. And now the base for that platform is a sinking ship:

blogs.zdnet.com/Apple

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

Waethorn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:11:40 GMT

"What only runs on one company's hardware?"

Commodore BASIC

TRS-80 BASIC

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

gorath — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:01:00 GMT

"What only runs on one company's hardware?"

AmigaOS?

RiscOS?

Arthur?

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

Waethorn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:28:41 GMT

"What only runs on one company's hardware?"

Irix.

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

gorath — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:21:02 GMT

@ Robertsjoe:

"Microsoft, the new Xerox."

Erm, do you realise the irony in that sentence? Either way, that's pretty funny!

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

mikegalos@msn.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:18:50 GMT

tayme

I don't know. zOS might run on an old Amdahl.

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

thingy123 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:18:46 GMT

@murdocdv "There is just no reason this should be constrained to a size less then the width of the smartphones we use."

Well, I guess that's a reason to bring back the old start menu.... or even the XP way of handling the All Programs list... or heck, just make the box resizable. (Constraining the programs list to that tiny box is one of those things I never really understood, I think it was a poor solution for people that have difficultly manipulating large menus...)

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

tayme — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:41:19 GMT

"You mean like running on only one company's hardware?"

What only runs on one company's hardware? Oh, I know...z/OS.

--tayme

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

robertsjoe — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:05:40 GMT

@tayme: "Now, if robertsjoe came on and said "Microsoft is copying the dock again because they know that Windows is dead" then I would agree with you...but that hasn't happened, at least not yet today."

Of course I would not say that. Windows is not dead. But you're right. It's Windows moving more and more towards what's better; in this case being the OS X dock. Microsoft, the new Xerox.

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

DRWAM — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:56:06 GMT

I can't believe it, but I found this purely by accident and coincidence:

www.youtube.com/watch

At least I didn't know about it. Go figure!

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

maati — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:46:21 GMT

That's French...

But actually mike's answer was a good one (and the one you wanted to hear, I guess).

re: Windows 7: the case for dumping the Start Menu

DRWAM — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:36:17 GMT

I knew that you would come back with that one. You're getting predictable! So, as they say in Germany, touché! Or was that Spain?

Or in Philly, Friggin' aye!

Doc

PS, I always wanted a blue Betta, as I though it was one of the most beautiful fresh water fish. I just didn't want to leave it alone and didn't really care for the know compatible fish. It looks better with a lighter background.