I've seen those reports, but what I'm seeing more is that boot to desktop will be an option, but there won't be a start menu. We'll have to wait until BuildWin in June to know for sure (and even then, we may not know until release of Windows Blue)


>Heh: my experience was like others', but the difference was a) I read Hanselman regularly and b) I remembered he had a list of tricks for Win 8.
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>MS did blow it, because (I would say "as usual") they ignored the psychological effect on users of what they were doing. Recent reports, including one today in Mashable and based on newly-acquired information, boot to desktop and start menu will be part of the refresh coming this summer.
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>Anyway, I would not choose to give up my Win 8, even though Win7 was a good OS, also.