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Posted Apr 3, 2012 13:29 UTC (Tue) by RCL (guest, #63264)
In reply to: Start menus by pboddie
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

> What's wrong with using the 80% of the screen the menu doesn't make any use of?

Because I don't want the rest of my screen obscured when I'm looking for recently used documents in Start menu?


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Posted Apr 3, 2012 22:25 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]

Couldn't you allow it to have just some of the 80%, though? Pretending that there's an iPod in the bottom left corner while the rest of the screen goes unused (apart from perhaps showing applets that only distract from the task at hand) seems to be a misallocation of resources.

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