Microsoft's desktop Start menu won't appear until next major Windows release in 2015
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Microsoft made several desktop-friendly tweaks to Windows 8.1 Update 1 and the much-anticipated return of the Start menu was supposedly slated for Update 2 later this year. According to a ZDNet report, however, the company has decided to hold off on this feature until sometime in 2015.
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@Joyfano said:
Microsoft made several desktop-friendly tweaks to Windows 8.1 Update 1 and the much-anticipated return of the Start menu was supposedly slated for Update 2 later this year. According to a ZDNet report, however, the company has decided to hold off on this feature until sometime in 2015.
Well, crap! That update could have made Windows 8.1 completely viable for VDI deployments. The current start screen has way too much motion to be smooth enough for a desktop replacement at present.
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I knew that it was too good to be true.
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windows 8 is not that pretty common here in our place.
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Well I can just hold off upgrading I guess and continue to plug along with Windows 7, I'm sure there will be a whole new RSAT package coming with that new release as well.
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@alexntg why wouldn't you just check the box that allows the user to see the desktop from login, like W7. I remove all tiles except the desktop and pin all daily task items to taskbar. This way clients feel like W7 with an odd shut down pattern.
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@technobabble said:
@alexntg why wouldn't you just check the box that allows the user to see the desktop from login, like W7. I remove all tiles except the desktop and pin all daily task items to taskbar. This way clients feel like W7 with an odd shut down pattern.
That could work for some users, if the base image included Outlook, Word, and Excel on the taskbar. It's not so much the content of the start screen as it is the broad, sweeping motions it has. It looks jerky when users move from section to section, such as when browsing applications. In a smaller environment, additional per-user manual customization may be an option, but not really for larger numbers of users.
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@alexntg One of my clients just got W8 about 4 months ago and the transition to W8 was smooth. Last month the client needed me for something else and also had a complaint re: the "shell thing" on her computer. She said their practice management program needed updating so the support tech insisted on installing classic shell so he could find things in W8. She asked me to make the shell thing go away. I was proud of her!
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@technobabble said:
@alexntg One of my clients just got W8 about 4 months ago and the transition to W8 was smooth. Last month the client needed me for something else and also had a complaint re: the "shell thing" on her computer. She said their practice management program needed updating so the support tech insisted on installing classic shell so he could find things in W8. She asked me to make the shell thing go away. I was proud of her!
That's pretty cool!
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@alexntg Weird, I didn't notice that with Server 2012 when remoting in. I never deleted any of those tiles.
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@technobabble said:
@alexntg Weird, I didn't notice that with Server 2012 when remoting in. I never deleted any of those tiles.
It's not the tiles. It's the sweeping motions involved with Modern UI. For PCoIP, depending on how you have the environment optimized, you'll either have choppiness or blurring during the motion parts. For a very basic user, it's liveable. However, for a power user, they'll get a bit frustrated. The traditional popup start menu doesn't have the motion, and the transition isn't noticed by the user. This can be overcome if you want throw some excess CPU or bandwidth at it, but over a couple hundred VMs, that adds up.
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@alexntg OIC...makes plenty of sense now, especially the amount of VMs you mentioned.
