>click the Start button to Shut Down
wow great UI design there Microsoft bravo
Click the Start button to Shut Down
Benjamin Stewart
Colton Walker
> blogs.msdn.microsoft.com
> So why is "Shut down" on the Start menu?
> When we asked people to shut down their computers, they clicked the Start button.
> Because, after all, when you want to shut down, you have to start somewhere.
> (Besides, if we also had a "Shut down" button next to the Start button, everybody would be demanding that we get rid of it to save valuable screen real estate.)
Benjamin Rogers
That menu is pure sex.
Also checked
Camden Cruz
t. virgin
Evan Taylor
You're starting the shutdown sequence which involves killing all running processes and stopping all writes to internal and external drives, before finally powering down to avoid data loss.
If you wanted to just straight up shutdown, you can pull the power cord.
Brandon Lee
Right, and all that computing jargon is supposed to come naturally to someone who doesn't even know how to navigate a GUI without a button labeled "Start."
John Diaz
That's better than the latest version of Windows -- where "Shutdown" means "waste time hibernating, without any of the benefits of hibernating, and leave my filesystem in an inconsistent state."[1]
[1]: h-online.com
Josiah Gray
>It is now safe to turn off your computer.
Colton Bailey
>the absolute state of Jow Forums
Fucking gookmoot. This is all his fault.
Levi Cox
if i wanted your shitty jokes i wouldve gone to reddit
Brody Harris
>Because, after all, when you want to shut down, you have to start somewhere.
Logically, you would end at the same place where you started, which is the power button, not some graphical software widget.
Juan Nguyen
Logically, if you weren't a brainlet retard, you would know Windows treats pressing the power button the same as clicking shutdown.
Colton Price
aint anything new, grab a beer and join the end
Dominic Stewart
It didn't in 1995
Xavier Campbell
this triggers zoomers
Lincoln Bailey
why dont you go look at linux distros from '96 and up. now that shit is ungly as fuck
Easton Robinson
>if you weren't a brainlet retard
Pro-tip: don't be aggressively overconfident regarding things twice as old as you.
Luis Thomas
This is fine.
Xavier Garcia
The "Start" button is the place to initiate a task, be that launching a program, configuring something, etc. Thus, when your task is to shut down the computer, it would still begin with the Start button.
I'm sorry to hear about your being a brainlet.
Tyler Green
That started with ACPI around the ME/XP era, many computers before that would just shut off.
Matthew Martinez
God love that fucking chink. Virtually all questions Jow Forumsaylords ask have been answered by him somewhere along the line. And fine digits, user.
David Bell
>press on button to turn computer on
>press on button to turn computer off
it makes perfect sense.
Leo Sanchez
>start = initiate
>initiate shutdown
Makes sense to me.
Ethan Young
This is nice but watch this.
Colton Gray
Actually windows xp somehow changed the setting in the bios to enable something like that because in windows 98 dual boot with windows xp, windows 98 would shut down by the power button.
Camden Nelson
the dumbest part about that is that windows will restore from hibernate even when the volume was opened read-write after hibernating
there should be some information windows can use to detect if the volume was mounted after creating the hiberfil, and could abort restoration, which would completely avoid any issues
Tyler Richardson
This is how the peak of computer engineering looks like.
Owen Russell
windows provided nothing from day 1.
all they did was deteriorate the xerox parc design.
... 2018 and they haven't figured out the menuing. The menus are a problem, The desktop is a problem. It was a problem from day 1 where they abandoned the OO foundation, without which xerox would not have been able to invent the desktop, & coded the lot in C. It's horrible, deteriorated shit, now. To microsoft, their software is their major problem (no design, no principles, no foundation). Bill was a brat, given the keys, and he had absolubtely no clue how to design anything, being an obnoxious little snot nozed brat. The company is disgusting.
Justin Sullivan
Glad they got rid of the stupid button and brought upon this beautiful thing.
Sebastian Torres
it looks like something from the 80s
Ryder Bell
Ryder Watson
For most of the 80s an IBM-compatible could only dream of having that many colors.