[adorno]

My mission is to get to desktop and forget I ever saw start screen.

The eventual goal by Microsoft, is to get rid of of the desktop, and to empower the Start screen even more. But, that's years away, although it's starting to happen slowly.

Meanwhile, I too started seeking out the desktop as soon as I saw the Start screen. But, I decided to start playing with it, and eventually, I was won over, and saw the reasons why it is superior to the desktop environment.

[FreeAtlanta]

from the start screen, without doing anything other than typing, type in the app you want. example; notepad