Dear Microsoft. Here is a list of things I want the Start Menu to do:
* Show my installed programs
* Search my local files
* Provide access to system settings
Here is a list of things I do *not* want the Start Menu to do:
* Show the weather for a randomly-selected town near my network's public IP infrastructure
* Show tabloid headlines
* Show programs I *don't* have installed
* Search the web via Bing
* Show adverts(!)
* Attempt to engage me in conversation with a hallucinating LLM
Thanks.
I renounced to use Start Menu or the Desktop a long time ago. I launch my programs by clicking the pinned icon on my taskbar. If the application is not there, I press the Windows key and start writing its name until I see it, and press enter. Never cared about the mess they made with the Start Menu on Windows 8 or 10. I still refuse to install 11, until they let me put the taskbar where it belongs: on a side.
