[Mythbusters]

the start button is still available but its on the left side now (or on the keyboard where it has always been) The only difference I see as a desktop user is a startling experience where the new "start menu" takes up my whole screen instead of taking lower left corner. Other than that there is nothing that really annoyed me to the extent of being horrified. What particularly you think that is horrifying?

[freehunter]

If they merely renamed "Start" to "Menu", there'd be a mass of horrified users. Both power users and casual users hate change, as evidenced by the amount of both groups still using Windows XP and refusing to upgrade.