Oh, dear GOD!

*shudders*

Start page can be disabled (I don't believe anyone actually uses it), it is only there because it was implemented in Windows 8. Many of those other pictures aren't screenshots of the Gold release.

Even if the start can be disabled, it's still ugly, plain ugly. The explorer looks awful, and I'm not talking about Edge, which I don't even know what it looks like, and I don't want to know.

What's the gold release? I have W10 installed on another partition in my computer, in dual boot with W7, and it does look like that. So the gold edition is the one for the rich? Does it have transparency for the windows; did they bring back the sidebar? Do they have only one setting program, instead of the two currently existing in W8 and 10? Can they choose not to install updates? Etc.

The 'Gold' release is the retail release, and not the beta or preview/insider version.

You like the sidebar? The Sidebar is a security issue and that's why it was removed, and its even unsupported on Windows 7. Use Rainmeter is you want something similar.

Yes, there isn't transparency on most windows, but a third party application could do that.

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What you are talking about in terms to 'Settings'?

Pro and Enterprise version allow you to deter feature updates (not security or vital updates).

I'm still on:Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 10240) (10240.th1.160104-1507)

The newest build is: 10.0.10586.104

Yeah, this whole modern 'let's make our desktop UI look like it should be on a 9" tablet touchscreen!' movement annoys me. No matter which company is doing it. (And don't get me started on the "flat design" crap that Apple & Jony Ive popularized. I miss skeuomorphism.)

Funny thing is Microsoft were the first ones on the whole flat design thing with Windows Phone 7.

Yeah, some things look better on my Galaxy Tab and I'd prefer they stay there.

Yeah, I really don't like the flat design. Wish I could go back to how Windows 7 look. Maybe it's possible with some third-party software?

Another minor annoyance I have with Windows 10 is how it now insist to call software for "apps" instead "programs"