From the archive: originally published on blog.cronky.net in 2012. Some links may have rotted.

Windows 8 will drop the start menu - is this the beginning of the end for MS OS dominance?

So Microsoft is dropping the start button from Windows in v8… I think this is a silly move - surely one of the things that keep people tied to Windows is the fact that they know how to use it. If they (badly) copy Mac / Linux and force people to re-learn how to navigate the OS won’t more people just switch to Mac/iPad and Linux? Especially given Android’s recent successes, and the continuing Apple obsession? Just need Google to ditch the cloud obsession from their Chromebook / Chrome OS or create an Android for PCs to accelerate it… I hope for MS sakes they keep an option in to make the OS look like Windows 7 - eg a basic theme?