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Originally Posted by ShaneC
Can you not pin applications to the Metro Start Menu the same as you did before?
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I am sure you can, but the start menu is not where it is supposed to be, it takes over my screen so I cant see what else I am doing, I have to WindowsC to see it or potentially scroll 27+13 inches to see it ~ and if I accidentally click a metro app ... wait, wait, fullscreen app ...grrrr
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Originally Posted by ShaneC
The desktop in all its glory is still a big part of the operating system. Microsoft has communicated that by saying that the next office will run in Desktop Mode.
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... so why Metro as
unchangeable default ?
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Originally Posted by ShaneC
This is an important point to remember. We (MSFT Engineers) are power users, coders, spreadsheet crunchers, and the like. Many of us (including me) have been using Windows 8 for months, and Microsoft has far from come crashing to a halt.
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... so why Metro as
unchangeable default
I am all for adding `another method of input to the mix`
... but why Metro as
unchangeable default 
I am
not bagging Metro as such, I am not anti-microsoft )although I am a daily linux user) all it would take to shut me up is an option for Desktop mode as default (perhaps it already exists I just cant see it)
thats it..
a traditional start menu I still think is daft to not include as an option but thats not the end of the world , in my gnome-shell or unity I use cairo-dock since there is no default menu there either.
Actually Unity/Gnome 3 is a good case in point, Gnome went all touchy-feely on us, Ubuntu devs (and Mr.Torvalds himself) hated it and instead recreated their own ...even worse
version of it.
Most everyone I know who are regular linux users have dropped back to Gnome2 distros or converted to Xface/KDE/Some Other manager, linux users love choice, and are voting with their mouses. Luckily for me if I don't like the desktop environment I can simply install an alternative , Windows users will not have this option.
under the hood Windows 8 is very Windows 7 without a start menu so why not give a 'traditional' interface
option ?