"Ironically enough, Microsoft is quicker to respond to complaints about Windows 8 than Canonical is on complaints about Unity" Tell that to people (like myself) who have to use IE 10 in Win 8 on a desktop. They have been ignoring our pleas since beta Win 8 to have IE 10 in Win 8 respect global font anti-aliasing (it never has- they say this was intentional for the tablet market and they won't fix it). IMO the market shifts and ebbs and flows, however tablets will not fully replace desktop computing any time in the near future. Canonical is like Microsoft, I'll give you that. The whole we don't give a lot of weight to what our end users want because we think we know the market and what is best for them is definitely at play for both. I think it took a few major media outlets and compiled statistical complaints before MS even considered putting the start menu you back as a registry item. For those stuck with Win 8- I recommend Classic Shell (open source). I'm darn near Win 7 UI with it. All that said, I hope they do put in a registry switch for the classic Start menu. I still use Windows for work and occasionally at home- sometimes there is just no way around that. -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: > http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2013/04/22/microsoft-reportedly-reintroducing-start-button-with-windows-8-1/?partner=yahootix > > It looks like Microsoft will be bringing the Start button back to Windows. Ironically enough, Microsoft is quicker to respond to complaints about Windows 8 than Canonical is on complaints about Unity. Then again, Linux Mint Main Edition is the most logical replacement for the old Ubuntu with GNOME2. > > -- > Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list