It's not the most detailed look, but Tom's Hardware noticed a cameo of the newest Start Menu in a Windows 8 video demo. It looks... pretty bare. Stark white-on-black text, very few buttons, and, importantly, where are the programs?
Whereas Windows 7's Start Menu offers a multitude of ways to get at your software—favorites, search, a giant list of applications—this Windows Phone 7-inspired Start Menu has none of that. Just a search box. Unless we're missing something from this screenshot, which is entirely possible, this looks like a pickle. Are we meant to search for whatever we want to use, as we might via OS X's Spotlight? Are there context-specific buttons that spring up? With Microsoft revealing more and more about their next titanic OS, we'll probably find out soon.
8 comments:
Good feeling about windows 8, hopefully it has a small memory footprint
I know no matter how good or bad this thing is it will be blasted but I hope it turns out alright. I'm sure it will.
I don't like this design until now!
Strange how we keep getting less and less doing more at the same time.
kind of reminds me of a mobile device menu
I dont know man, I'm not really liking the start menu for 8
still don't have w7 lolz
I like it. Very minimalist.
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