Quote Originally Posted by Raksha View Post
I haven't used windows 8 yet. If there's no Start Menu, then how do you "run" things? (I.E. start -> run)
Clicking in the bottom left of the screen pulls up the "Start Screen". Basically they made the start menu a full screen app instead of a pop out and implemented live tiles that show information on the specific apps. IE. instead of a little icon that says "Email", you see a square tile that says email and shows how many unread messages you have so that you know without opening the email app whether or not you have new messages. The "facebook" tile might show how many posts have been made since you last checked or the first line of a message that someone sent you.

It's really all geared towards people who run windows on a tablet and want to see basic info at a glance. For people on desktop / laptop computers, you can pin apps to the taskbar or desktop etc. and never really have to go into that "menu". There are also about a million apps out there that make the whole thing look / function pretty much exactly like windows 7.