I know, I'm the exact same way as those folks.
But that fact that this issue even has to exist shows how out of touch the "Upper Management" is with their core audience and how they need to be relieved of their position.
Things at MS went down-hill fast when Satya Nadella took over as CEO of MS.
I'd argue that that shifting the start menu is the least of the issues - that's simply changing things from what people are used to that annoys them (I had a client years ago who had software on her system to make sure icons on the desktop stayed in the same place otherwise she got unhappy).Yeah, it's a disgrace that people have to fix what they've bought to make it halfway usable..
Bigger issues are things like splitting between control panel and settings.
Or dealing with Microsoft 365. Apart from the abomination that it's cockpit (or any pretty much any ai system) they love to fucking fiddle so any documentation that helps solve a problem one month no longer applies the next cos they've changed everything.
working copy as in on my laptop
Not going to be too long before the retro computing forums start talking about the Vista because it falls into the category.
Talk about depressing
what
theres a retro computing forums
r/vintagecomputing and r/retrohomelab on reddit and probably others as well.
then you get them on youtube. My Sunday seems a bit empty without a Usagi Electric (usagi = Japanese for rabbit) which is David Lovett down in Texas boy does he get retro (apart from being bery entertaining and a good communicator). Over the past couple yes he's restored a Bendix G15 which is now one of the oldest (2nd iirc) operating digital computers in the world.
Yeah, I know right? The first thing I did was go into the personalization options and switch the taskbar to left-justified, or something to that effect. I absolutely hate that it defaults to a centered position. Not only is it butt-ugly while centered, but it's a waste of good screen space. I don't know who decided it was a great idea for a desktop to have a centered taskbar. And yes, I hate the default start menu too. It's the reason why I use the classic shell. It's so much better from a user standpoint when non-touchscreens aren't forced to use a touchscreen designed UI.
It's for reasons like these I wish MS would include more customizablity options when it comes the start menu out of the box. Give users the option for classic style.
I bet you it's some 'Young Whipper-Snapper' PM who never grew up with a classic computer OS and grew up on iOS or Android.
And tries to shape the OS GUI in their experience w/ ZERO care for the entire audience of Windows Users who came before it.
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