I am busy living the Dream that is America and am certainly way too busy at work to try to figure out where a bunch of young whizz software engineers put all of the stuff that I know and like just the way they were.
Microsoft, don't abandon your faithful followers just to keep up with the Jones' - Pander to us and we will continue to be your bread and butter customers.
Unfortunately, MS is always chasing "new customers" / "new" money. They
ASSUME that they have existing customers fully "addicted" so that they will accept all changes /
"improvements". In the past, MS had a policy of maintaining "backwards compatibility" with earlier versions. That is why things like "CTL-C" for Copy still work even though they originated in the 1970's and 1980's! But recently they have given up on
that policy which is why we are stuck with abominations like the ribbon and the Metro "start scream" <grin>
In the past MS focused on function over form. With every new release of Office they gave you a "laundry list" of "new features" (often ones they stole/copied from WordPerfect or Apple <grin> ) and where to find them on the "same old" menu. Then in Office
2007 the main "new feature" was the "new coat of paint" called the Ribbon and very few other functional additions/improvements. But they refused to give us any way of getting "backwards compatibilty" to the menu. It would have been trivial for them to do
that, just add the (few) other new features to the ribbon and give us a "Option" to turn it on, but they refused to.
Then the same thing happened in Windows, Win 8 came out with the "new and improved" "start scream". Form over function (when it comes to desktop type computers), again! During the public beta test, aka "Preview" of Win 8 people (aka "hackers")
found a registry entry that allowed you to boot directly to the desktop. Desktop users loved it! MS hated it so much that they issued an out of cycle "patch" / Windows Update to totally remove that option! They tried to fob off the return of the non functional
"Start button" in Win 8.1 update 1.