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Also, they are supposed to be "active" mini-screens, so that you can see at a glance what's happening with all of your active applications.

LOL. The active ones are the first ones I removed! I'll say one thing for that start screen, it does let you put stuff out to pasture. My Windows 8 start screen has almost nothing on it. Desktop and very few other things. My mission is to get to desktop and forget I ever saw start screen.

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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.