On Tuesday, Microsoft explained why the Windows 8 start menu is now a start screen: no one used it.

Senh: Really? I use it all the time. I have my shortcuts, but whenever I need to access a program that I didn't creat a shortcut for, then I click on the start menu. It's a good organization of every program on the computer.

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