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New Question about Vista beta
From a [link|http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/15/79261_25OPenterwin_1.html|review]:
Microsoft has also made plenty of user-oriented changes that should make users familiar with XP pretty happy after they're used to them. The shell is a good place to start, including the Windows Start window. This behaves much more like a folder-tree file menu now. It's a little strange to get used to it, but when you do, the old XP method seems maddeningly slow. It's much easier to go straight where you want to go with Vista's Start menu.
I haven't seen Vista in person, but that sure sounds like the change is to revert back to the old (W95 through W2K) Start menu. Is that right? If so, has this genius been so immersed in XP for the last 3-4 years that he finds it strange to get used to a menu that works like every other menu in the world? And he had convinced himself that the XP way was a Good Thing™? And this is progress?
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New Re: Question about Vista beta
They're doing what Windows users have been doing for years - moving your shortcuts from the Programs directory right into the root of the Start Menu directory.

I can't get terribly excited about the Start menu, though.

In real terms, when Vista and Office 2007 happen to me at work (as surely they will), I'll be more annoyed at the fact that Office applications have sprouted Start buttons.

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Well, at least I think I'll be annoyed. At the moment, it's all very different and by default, that's annoying, plus it's an MS product, which makes me want to get my hate on, and I haven't really done any work with it.

This might be a usability breakthrough, but at the moment, I hates it.


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New Re: Question about Vista beta
What the review is talking about is that when you click on All Programs, instead of getting an additional submenu, the tree of programs and submenu/folders appear as a scrolling list embedded in the left column of the Start menu. You can then click on submenu/folders to expand them in place like a treeview and can click a back button that appears at the bottom of the list to go back a step, or click on a program to run it.

So the answers would be No, No, Who Knows, and Yes.
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New I was with you up to the "who knows" bit.
New Well, it was originally "who cares" ...
But upon re-reading the blurb Drew included, I guess it should be "No" as well.
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     Question about Vista beta - (drewk) - (4)
         Re: Question about Vista beta - (pwhysall)
         Re: Question about Vista beta - (altmann) - (2)
             I was with you up to the "who knows" bit. -NT - (CRConrad) - (1)
                 Well, it was originally "who cares" ... - (altmann)

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