51Cards

There are several instances where the new start menu structure becomes a hindrance. Myself I do like the search function however I would like to see it coupled with a cascading menu of applications like the 'Classic Menu'. To have to use the small scrolling box to find things is going to be a hassle... and here's why. I have over 210 distinct applications on my primary development machine... most of which I use infrequently as the need arises. I have the Menus sorted hierarchically by category which means currently I can find things just buy moving my mouse through the various categories without clicks. While I do agree the search will be handy take this example: I have a Korn Unix Shell installed for doing some script editing occasionally.. maybe once or twice a year at most. When the application installed it didn't use Korn, or Unix, or Shell in it's name... It's called KSH Emulator. Now I am not going to remember that a year from now but presently it's not a big deal because there it is filed nicely under my scripting development menu. I don't have to expand little folders to find it and scroll up and down... no matter how infrequently it's used and how much I forget it's name I can still have it open in a second or two. The new Start Menu will be a plus to most users, but to blindly tell everyone this is better for them only proves your ignorance on how others may need to work with their tools. There is no one method that is best for everyone and there is no justification to force one method on everyone. As for the required code to display the 'classic menu' being gone, this is just plain untrue. The new start menu can display a cascaded menu of any of the right side groups (documents, pictures, games). The ability to display a cascaded menu will never be ripped from the Windows API, it's been around since Windows began. To claim that this somehow cleaned out legacy code in the shell is untrue. At most it cleaned out a couple of API calls and a branch or two, hardly any extreme level of code cleanup that will magically make Win7 so much easier to manage. Just my 2c.