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Here, you can throw an email address at them to, if you want:
Download Windows 9
I hope that it looks better than 8 and you don't have to use all kind of tweaks to make it usable.
Windows 98 was the most customisable version of Windows that I remember using.
Each subsequent version removed various customising options.
That's more opinion than fact. The heat maps showed which area the screen is most quickly moused over than the start menu. It's easier to move around a large screen full of tiles versus a narrow menu that doesn't expand out on larger monitors.
Microsoft never scolded anyone about anything.
They never assumed EVERYONE was on touch devices, why would they even bother improving multimonitor support if that were the case? And if they wanted a 30% app tax, they would have done a better job in doing so from the very beginning. The overwhelming majority of Windows apps are free. The only thing they'd get anything from the Store are games.
There was no start menu code in the CP nor DP.