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[FrankReynolds]

Still, this was one of the factors that hurt productivity in businesses.

I gotta call BS on this. Anyone who uses a computer for work spends 99.99% of their time in desktop apps and files that can be pinned to the task bar. Anyone who spends more than about 10 seconds a day looking at the start menu or start screen is doing their job wrong and either needs to be retrained or replaced.

Home users who don't know what they're doing have a (somewhat) legitimate gripe about it. But again, the old start menu did nothing but launch apps etc., so the only legitimate reason to be in that menu for more than a couple seconds out of the day is if you are actually using the live tiles (which did not exist in the old menu).

As far as the actual "Start Button" - People complained incessantly about it back when they originally added it. Tech pundits had a field day with the irony of having to hit the "Start Button" in order to turn off the computer. These are people who are terrified of change and will complain any time you change anything. I mean seriously. Not only is it still in the same spot that it has been for the last 15 years, but there is now a dedicated button on almost every keyboard for it. Even a monkey could find it by simply mashing away at the keyboard.

There are plenty of legitimate issues with windows 8 (and every other OS ever invented for that matter) but these do not fall in that category. Sometimes people just complain to complain and I'm glad MS only met them half way by adding the button back, but still linking it to the "Metro" start screen. People will have a much better experience if they learn to use jump lists and pin things.