The First Glimpse of the Windows 8 Start Menu

Looks like I will stick be using Windows 7 for a long time.

I'll be first in line. The first thing I'll do is click on start, look it over, and then simply look for the "classic" option.

And so they continue to dumb things down for phones and tablets. To hell with people who actually use their computers.

It looks really out of place there.

It seems to me that the start menu shown in the picture is likely a specific start menu for My Computer (or whatever it will be called) as opposed to the actual Desktop start menu.

i don't like it.

I hope theres an option for W7 theme.

that`s dumb.

meh, liked the one 7 better.

At least they seem to be still calling it a "Start Menu", unlike the taskbar -> superbar name change with Vista -> 7. Funny enough, the option itself wasn't changed within windows, so it still said "Lock the taskbar" instead of "lock the superbar".

Oh hell no.

It looks like a minimalistic Win7, I kinda dig that style.

Oh? It reminds of the start menu in the Classic shell. Why the step back, I wonder.

So the so-called Start menu doesn't have any programs on it, thus negating the need to open it completely?

I don't get it, Microsoft...

I really don't get what's going through the minds of Windows 8 developers.

I really hope there's the option for the Windows 7 start menu as well.

One of my favorite features of Windows 7 was clicking on the start menu and typing in a few letters of the programs name in the search bar, it looks like with windows 8 you will have to click on Search instead of just typing it, it's not really a big deal I guess but it won't be as easy as before.

Am I the only one who gets this? I think it's great.

Windows 3.1?

Meh... I think change should be embraced, but the way Windows 7 did it I think was actually more... convenient because the Start button basically gets you going.

Oh well, new OS, new UI.
I do think however that the ribbon based interface for Windows Explorer is unnecessary when you take into account how much space it occupies.

Moan, moan, complain, moan, I'm thirteen, moan, complain and add an extra slice of rant.

It's in beta. It's not done yet.

"One of my favorite features of Windows 7 was clicking on the start menu and typing in a few letters of the programs name in the search bar, it looks like with windows 8 you will have to click on Search instead of just typing it, it's not really a big deal I guess but it won't be as easy as before."
...You wouldn't believe how many people simply do not know that you can do that.



P.s. That looks like it#ll be the start menu for the Metro theme once it drops back into Windows 8.

The Windows start menu has been steadily getting harder and harder to use. You've got hidden items, lots of scrolling, and all that dumbness with the 'All Programs' compressed into a little box in Win7, gah! If they want to dumb that part down, and perhaps make it less 'scrolley', that's a good improvement, if you ask me. Windows is becoming a torture for non-techies to use. Probably why they're all going to Android.

Don't like. Too dumbed down. Hope there's a Win7 style, too. Can MS make a version of Win8 that is NOT targeted at the "common (read: dumb) user"? Call it Windows 8 Power User Edition or something...

Reminds me of a minimalistic LiteStep theme I had back in '08 just for gaming. Except this one doesn't blend well with the rest of the interface.

Two clocks? Were they deliberately aiming for a "wtf is this shіt" reaction?

Looks unfinished, but I'm glad they're doing something to modernise the Start Menu as well as introducing the Metro UI. The amount of mass whining based on a small screenshot is hilarious, the exact same thing happened during the early previews of Windows 7, yet now everyone is claiming they're going to stick with Windows 7 forever. Some people are just irrationally resistant to change, I guess.

What the hell? These smartphones and tablets are ruining my beloved all-powerful PCs.

Looks very dumbed down, hope there will be option to use old style start menu.

Finally, a minimalistic and cleaner start menu - the old one was really too bulky. I'm throwing up at the sight of ribbons in win. explorer though. Gues I'll be using Directory Opus as I've been doing for years.