This whole "Start button" thing is getting blown way out of proportion. I am using the Win8 Consumer Preview right this minute, and I can tell you that if you go into it with an open mind, it's not even about re-learning the OS. If you take the old Start menu, make it an entire screen-sized page, and redesign the list of programs as a bunch of boxes on a horizontal axis rather than a vertical one, that is the essence of the Metro UI. It's not as big an innovation as MSFT seems to want people to think, but it isn't as horrid a blasphemous change as some people seem to want to believe. Immediately after I log on, I simply click on the desktop icon, or hit the Windows key, and I'm on the regular desktop with all my programs up and running, and all the programs I use most often already on my taskbar at the bottom anyway. I highly recommend that if you can't or don't want to test the OS yourself, read real actual reviews of how it works instead of a lot of these people who obviously haven't used it or have a severe bias against MSFT or anything new in general.