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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
So if your real concern is being able to quick pin things to the Start screen, then say that. Complaining that it's still full screen means nothing when it goes away as quickly as it shows up because you only use it for invoking applications. There's literally nothing else you could do with the additional space it takes up. It's like Barnes said, 'people hate change'. That's all it comes off as to anyone else reading.
As for grouping things, I've done that on the Start screen with Office 2013 as an example. You can pin all the Administrative tools you want to your heart's content... though it's still faster to just type the first three or four letters and hit [Enter].
Although as a former IT admin myself, I'm a bit surprised you're not using something like RDCMan ( link) or some other sort of RDP Management application for managing multiple RDP connections. Shortcuts and RDP files are a pretty inefficient way of managing RDP sessions. As your infrastructure scales out and the number of servers you need to manage rises, pinning stuff to the Start menu is not going to be a viable solution once you reach a certain point. If anything, I'd say you should probably use the 'inconvenience' of the new Start menu as an excuse to get out of these bad habits.
But if you insist... |
And this high horse "What you're doing is wrong, so we're going to force you to do things the way we think they should be done" thinking is why Microsoft has failed so hard with Windows 8. People don't like being told that they have to do things a certain way, they like having options. RDCman is fine for doing things like patching, but when there's only a select handful of servers that I need to access regularly I'd rather use straight RDC.
You definitely caught on to drinking the company koolaid fast though, that's for sure