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by greatergoodguy 4457 days ago
This WAS predicted by many users and blogs prior to the release of Windows 8. Criticisms started a year prior to the official release of Windows 8, with the consumer preview version.

Here's one of the videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU

This article was written shortly after the release but it does one of the best jobs of explaining how poor the usability of the OS is. http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usab...

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"This WAS predicted by many users and blogs prior to the release of Windows 8."

There will be people saying negative things about any change. Often they'll be right, whether for the right reasons or the wrong ones. I wasn't asserting that no one predicted it, I was trying to get at why the parent was asserting it was terrible.

I haven't watched the video, but at a skim the article raises quite a few points, most to all of which have nothing to do with the start menu in particular.