If you want Win 8 to stay the same as Win 7 then just stay with Win 7. Do not change to Win 8. Those of us actively using Win 8 CP and finding it surprisingly easy to use, and getting easier each day, are glad it is different for the great advances we are seeing.
Well all of the versions of Windows that were ever made from Windows NT,Windows 95 to Windows 7,have all had a start menu.
The Classic Windows 98 start menu is not as nice or as user friendly as the Windows XP and Windows 7 start menu. But it's a start menu and it's a means of finding all of your programs and settings quickly.
Even on Linux and more complicated versions like Ubuntu,they have a start menu. So why should Windows 8 be different?
Unless they make Windows 8 with a normal start menu. Or give us the option to disable Metro and have a Windows 7 start menu. Like they did in the DP. Then I will never use Windows 8 or buy the operating system. For the simple reason,I cannot use it like that.
And why should I have to use the Metro theme anyway?
Although the Metro theme on Windows 8 DP was more user friendly than on CP. And also I had the Windows XP start menu that I could use in the Metro theme. As well as with the Metro theme turned off. Thanks to Classic Shell,which does not work at all on CP. The Metro apps did not work on my netbook.So it was all pointless, and so it made sense to disable the Metro theme. Which I did do.
And not being able to use the Metro apps is not the end of the world, as you can still use all of the other settings and software anyway.
But the Metro theme was not the only problem I had on Windows 8 CP. It was slow and there was a bug in Windows Explorer with the ribbon. And it froze my mouse up so I could not send shortcuts to the desktop.
And installing all of the updates from Windows Update did not fix it.
Windows 8 DP was very much like Windows 7 and Windows Vista.Once you disabled the Metro theme. But Windows 8 CP is completely the opposite to what DP was. They should have just made CP the same as DP.
And they have removed the start orb. Why have they done that? Andrea Borman.