The Orb is Gone? In W8 build 8220 it’s missing.

Published on February 3, 2012 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

Neowin has posted some screenshots of Windows 8 build 8220. Turns out MS has stolen my idea! lol.

Well… I did put up screenies of Noir without a start button (Desktop Screenshot of the Month thread) and now, in W8 8220 (6.2.8220.0) the famous orb seems to be missing. Also, the super bar (or Dock Bar… the task bar) is remaining and you’ll need it (if you’re getting W8) as a place to pin your most used (non-tiled) apps in order to have rapid access to them.

I have a better idea: Tiles. And it’s skinnable.

Well, if you rely on rumor (at this point), the Orb reappears on mouse-over in the bottom left corner. Why is it needed at all? The Winflag or just a hotspot would suffice, imo… but they aren’t asking. Anyway, here’s a pic of what the old start menu changed into:

You can follow the topic on Neowin.net, here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/in-windows-8-build-8220-the-start-orb-is-gonehere-is-where-it-went

Comments (Page 2)

Rosco_P

on Feb 03, 2012

DrJBHL

reply 15

Isn't 'Tiles' easier?

Tiles is great for the things you know your going to need. Launchy is for quickly getting to that file or program that you haven't seen in two months and didn't know you needed, and is buried somewhere in your My Documents folder. Not just that, of course, but you get the picture.

athelasloraiel

on Feb 04, 2012

not gonna see my pc.eva

ugly as hell

Uvah

on Feb 05, 2012

Win 8---------- >

Philocthetes

on Feb 05, 2012

Just another example of addle-pated software developers working to make sure the work that we put into learning their products has no lasting value.

Change isn't bad, but change for the sake of change is bad.

starkers

on Feb 05, 2012

Metro is the butt ugliest thing I've ever seen on a computer... fark, I'd rather go back to the Fisher Price look of naked XP.

Who ever thought of Metro for a UI needs a good kick in the nuts.

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