[codelobe]

... Or pressing the start key in Vista and seeing a wall of live tile distractions.

In my experience the start page idea was a software implementation of "Doorway Effect". I always had to return to the desktop to have my "refrigerator logic" spin up.

<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fridge_logic>

[seabass-labrax]

Vista..? The Windows start page was introduced in version 8, not Vista. Vista had a bog-standard, pre-8 menu.