Apple removed the Apple Menu in the OSX beta, it returned not long after due to negative feedback.


And where's your source that the 'majority' didn't want the Start button?

Doesn't matter anyway, Microsoft have decided for you.

And you keep going on about 'change'. The whole idea of 'change' is supposed to make things better for everyone. The Windows 8 Start Screen may have helped on touchscreen devices, but the official majority of Windows devices are mouse/touchpad + keyboard, and many tasks on the Start Screen required more effort than the Start menu, therefore an example of when 'change' is wrong, when it helps some, but hinders others.

As for the start menu on Windows 10, you can access Apps, Programs, Search, File Explorer, Control Panel, Power Options, Device Manager, Task Manager, Event Viewer, System Properties, Command Prompt, Networking, and Computer Management, all with 2 or 3 mouse clicks. Can you do that with the Start Screen?

Absolutely! If you want your software business to become successful, it'll be best to listen to what the vast majority of your customers want from it. If Windows 10 is the last operating system that Microsoft are releasing, it'll only get more secure, more bug free and more improvements as the decades go by. There must have been a load complained about the Start menu being removed for Microsoft to have brought it back. It was a daft thing to do though, what with all I'm guessing) their operating systems over the years having it. It's not like it was a feature deep within the operating system. It was seen on the desktop when clicking a button.

This s works because windows 8.1 licences are embedded in bios and latest version of windows 10 finds the key and simply activates automatically.

You can simply reinstall w10 on new ssd or clone it usin Macrium Reflexct Free or similar.

Note if you reinstall, remove old drive first or else you will end up with a dual boot system with boot vsectors on wrong drive.

Then, you need to set bios to boot from ssd, and then you can reconnect old drive and wipe it etc.

Thanks for that, I had an idea it was in the BIOS, no need for COA stickers anymore I guess!

Technically no, but I think it is always useful to retain a written copy of the operating system's product key (assuming that it is a proprietary one) just in case things go pear shaped.

Have I said that consumers didn't want the 'start button'? - that will be a NO! My gripe is with the interminable whinging about minor issues with Windows 10 that in the majority of cases a child in infant school could sort out. People just embarrass themselves with - my screen saver is now a picture of a dog but with W8.1 it was a cat - this new OS is to blame it's horrible, whinge whinge whinge.

Seriously: you believe that? It's a piece of nonsense that belongs in the same collection of quotes as '640K ought to be enough for anybody'. Either that or Microsoft has inside information about the date of the apocalypse.

You seem not to know much about user interfaces, and why they can be problematic.

Perhaps you could expand a little - should you be able, rather than the empty rhetoric?

Well to turn your argument on its head - can you provide evidence to the contrary?

This comes from a comment made by Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon, who said "Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10."

Nobody knows what that means - try Googling it for lots of theories. The conspiracy theorists and FUD mongers will tell you it's going to be bad, whatever it means. My guess is that Jerry was just talking bollocks.

I could - but frankly anyone who thinks that a user not liking an interface that has been thrust upon them is the fault of the idiotic user and not the interface designer is unlikely to grasp the point. In the same way as Basil Fawlty should probably have avoided running a hotel, such people should probably not be entrusted with designing user interfaces.

If you are really interested in interface layouts and understanding the various issues involved you could do worse than to read these two books.


"Prioritising Web Usability", Nielsen and Lorager,

and

"Universal Principles of Design", Lidwell, Holden and Butler

Hmm! empty vessel then. your assumptions and misquotes are really something.

Forgetting the ins and outs of the whole of W10, just looking at the whole process for Media Creation Tool, from the perspective of an inexperienced user is still concerning.

I see someone is On-Watch on the leviathan oil tanker that is Microsoft though...

The 'Upgrade Now' button has been removed from the W!0 Media Creation Tool webpage!
Hurrah! But sadly, reference to the button remains in the grey 'Important' box further down.

Why is that? Does a software designer just get the order to 'Remove the button' but no order to make sure the text is edited too?

Sloppy, right from the get-go.

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The advice on checking your Language is also factually incorrect.

Settings>Region and Language (or Control Panel>Region) report Locale, not Install Language.

(Using the wrong download means you don't have the option of keeping files, apps and settings during any re-installs)

For most, this will just be minor confusion over en-GB or en-US, but some do buy their laptops in Europe and further afield.

It is quite a minor point, but if you design a Tool for a billion people, shouldn't you know the difference between Locale and Install Language?

What have you provided, other than your own unsubstantiated insults of Windows users?


Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on 14th October 2025.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/lifecycle?C2=18165

So what happens next?

Quite likely there will be a Windows 10.1 following the format used by Apple with OS X. You accuse me of insulting Windows users then you post something like the above in the same post.

You're worrying about what might happen in 9 years time, Geez the world might have ended by then.

Yep. Windows 10 Apocalypse Edition (AE).

That'll make any issues over a 'Start' menu look a bit redundant. Maybe they'll replace it with an 'End' menu.

I am trying to get freemake video dl working on Windows 10 which used to be an windows xp. Although it's down loaded and installed ok it's have problems opening up, any reason why.

See in the upcoming MS windows 10 ads, that Microsoft are having digs at the Apple Mac

https://youtu.be/k6SVsf0k2i0
https://youtu.be/ln5LU532GuY
https://youtu.be/WHoHKjjttvQ
https://youtu.be/VOV1tQpgAs8

Stand bye for all the clever MS bug jokes people are going to attempt............and fail..

Obviouusly that date is just a nominal legal date simply to limit potential future financial liabilities of MS . To state it would be supported forever is totally unrealistic, and somebody with a licence might sue MS for lack of support years in the future.

The above - yes correct. The embarrassment lies with people who read these items and immediately add 2+2 and come up with 5. Is it any wonder they are not able to properly assess an operating system.

You just have to love the Internet don't you!

Freemake Video Converter? Have you tried to download the latest version? It says here that it works on W10.