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Old 01-30-2015, 03:49 PM   #201
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Okay, I understand what you mean.

The desktop is still the desktop. You can save your frequently used files to the desktop in Windows 8 too. The start screen in Windows 8 is an expanded version of the start menu in Windows 7.
In 8.1 it's just an expanded start menu. Though it seems clear that their original intention was for it to be much more than that. It was going to be the new Windows interface going forward, with the old one relegated to "program status", much like DOS was many years ago, with the hope that consumers and developers would embrace this "modern" interface and slowly abandon the desktop entirely.
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