re: Windows 7 so far....
Monday, July 13, 2009 at 4:26 am
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alan Masterman
(462 messages posted)
Since you ask - I tried Win7 RC and I lasted a day! Couldn't stand that Start Menu
any longer.
(1) You cannot expand the Win 7 Start Menu to provide a structured tree view. Everything
you look at is confined within a small box at one end of the screen (a lot like Windows
Explorer resized to a small window and without the folder view). So it is no longer
possible to see graphically the logical pathways between the various sub-menus.
(2) You cannot customise the Win 7 Start Menu by drag-and-drop, and the folder view
has been deleted from the Customize menu. So whatever pops up after you finish your
upgrade, that's what you are stuck with (unless you have special knowledge). And
it probably won't bear much resemblance to whatever you had in your original XP/Vista
installation.
(3) You can no longer open sub-menus by hovering the cursor over them. Everything
has to be *clicked* or it will just ignore you.
For better or worse, the Windows Classic Start Menu was a masterpiece of sound ergonomic
design. Like the Volkswagen Beetle and the DC3, it soldiered on for years because
there simply wasn't a better way to do it; and I am at a loss to understand how
anyone could seriously consider the Win7 Start Menu to be a step forward ("for the
betterment of us all", as one MVP had the gall to describe it in another forum).
- Written in response to:
- Windows 7 so far.... (Mark: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 4:35 am)
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