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Brings you to the start menu.
s/menu/screen/
It's the same darn thing, so yes :)
Microsoft announces Windows 8.1
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And he didn't mention what percentage of those apps are of any decent quality. They're ruining the experience by pushing quantity over quality.
Have you seen some of the horrific efforts that populate both the App Store and Google Play now? Let's not pretend that either Apple or Google are curating anything beyond "meets requirements/guidelines/rules", certainly not "brand-positive User Experience".
No, I haven't really, but this doesn't surprise me either. I have a feeling that Amazon is doing the same thing with their Android app store.
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Microsoft has a long history of very poorly chosen names. There are at least 3 other Microsoft Stores -- their chain of retail stores (ala Apple Store), the online version of those stores, their multiple "Microsoft Stores" on the corporate campus that sell Microsoft hardware/software/books/swag to both visitors and employees predating the retail locations, and their employee-only online store.
I remember working with IIS at one point, and an object had a name like "site" then inside of the configuration files you had other "sites" that configured your site. Finding errors for one was incredibly difficult because the other one kept popping up.
Sql Server and MVC also come to mind as less-than-ideal names.
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Ugly and nonsensical once you're in front of the big screen holding the mouse in the hand.
They put the same interface on Windows Server 2012. Try using that through Remote Desktop Manager running in windowed mode, it'll drive you crazy.
Try using Windows XP or later in safe mode... the start menu is near to worthless now...
Try this in Windows 8...