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Originally Posted by HarryT
The only real change is that you launch apps from a screen that looks very like the iPad or Android home screen, rather than a heirarchical "Start Menu", and that makes a lot of sense to me, given that a lot of people are now familiar with such interfaces.
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And you still have a desktop to go to if you absolutely have to have one.
The thing people forget is MS has extensive usability labs where they test how actual users actually use PCs. And, as they've pointed out, over the past decade, people have been relying on desktop and launchbar shortcuts more than the Start Menu. So the (no-longer) Metro interface is just a natural evolution of that user mode.
It's a tempest in a teacup: I fullly expect to see a hundred different Start Menu tweaks to come for Win8, right from launch.
With at least one coming from MS itself, just like TweakUI and the other PowerToys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweak_UI
All it takes is a tweak to force a boot to the desktop and allow a hotkey to a text menu version of the Start Screen.