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Sep 13, 2011

Here’s Windows 8’s Start Menu

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:

  1. IskandarSeptember 13, 2011 at 7:39 AM

    Good feeling about windows 8, hopefully it has a small memory footprint

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  2. OutcastSeptember 13, 2011 at 7:59 AM

    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.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2011 at 8:22 AM

    I don't like this design until now!

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2011 at 9:50 AM

    Strange how we keep getting less and less doing more at the same time.

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  5. 1904 BloggerSeptember 13, 2011 at 10:37 AM

    kind of reminds me of a mobile device menu

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  6. BDTCSeptember 13, 2011 at 12:25 PM

    I dont know man, I'm not really liking the start menu for 8

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  7. StyronSeptember 13, 2011 at 2:00 PM

    still don't have w7 lolz

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  8. Our BlogSeptember 15, 2011 at 11:30 PM

    I like it. Very minimalist.

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