I have to say, that in my case at the very least the 'supporting evidence' you (they) put forward for the pinning case is utter rot.
Take my desktop as an example:
I've got two monitors, and use a dock on monitor #2 (Equivalent of their pinned applications) This has my 6 most frequently used applications/ shortcuts on there, but this doesn't mean that there aren't far more I use on a daily basis. In actual fact, I'd use closer to 30 different shortcuts over the course of a day.
Pinning all of these to the taskbar or the start menu for that matter is completely unfeasable, I'd have no space left for normal usage- You do see people with '00s of shortcuts pinned places, but IMHO these are the exception not the rule.
Searching is also a horribly disengenous argument for anyone approaching power user status- A properly organised menu/ folder structure beats a search every single time. I can find any application on this PC within ~3 clicks, and with no use of the keyboard. Similarly, my files are stored exactly where they should be, and anything interesting is archived in a custom solution with full metadata searching, which Windows hasn't come anywhere close to.
What they should have done is sort out the mess that is all programs to force things to install under a proper menu categorisation system instead (See Gnome/ KDE, although Gnome 3 is going down the same path as MS), and not headed off on this godawful touch based tangent.
I also use the desktop of monitor #2 for storing my current working set of files, so there's no way I'd want to loose that.
-Leezer-
Take my desktop as an example:
I've got two monitors, and use a dock on monitor #2 (Equivalent of their pinned applications) This has my 6 most frequently used applications/ shortcuts on there, but this doesn't mean that there aren't far more I use on a daily basis. In actual fact, I'd use closer to 30 different shortcuts over the course of a day.
Pinning all of these to the taskbar or the start menu for that matter is completely unfeasable, I'd have no space left for normal usage- You do see people with '00s of shortcuts pinned places, but IMHO these are the exception not the rule.
Searching is also a horribly disengenous argument for anyone approaching power user status- A properly organised menu/ folder structure beats a search every single time. I can find any application on this PC within ~3 clicks, and with no use of the keyboard. Similarly, my files are stored exactly where they should be, and anything interesting is archived in a custom solution with full metadata searching, which Windows hasn't come anywhere close to.
What they should have done is sort out the mess that is all programs to force things to install under a proper menu categorisation system instead (See Gnome/ KDE, although Gnome 3 is going down the same path as MS), and not headed off on this godawful touch based tangent.
I also use the desktop of monitor #2 for storing my current working set of files, so there's no way I'd want to loose that.
-Leezer-
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, although I'm not looking forward to a future of: