People are saying they put back START but clicking it takes you to Metro! Oh well!
That can be done easily without having Start do it!
That's exactly what it does. It's such a half-hearted gesture, it's almost laughable.
It works slightly better than it did before... if you click the Start button, the metro interface pops up and the Start button remains (so you can hide it with another click and revert back to the desktop). However, if you happen to move your cursor off the Start button while in the Metro interface, boom, you're now locked in the Metro world. The only way to get out? Either click on the Desktop tile, or do that weird swiping from right to left, starting at the edge (or trying to invoke a hot corner, which is not always responsive).
Why can't the Start button have a place on the Metro screen permanently? And why can't we have an option to enforce the default UI? When I first heard about Windows Blue, I was hopeful... now I realize that they are still laboring under the same old delusions.
I actually kinda like the Metro interface (I suppose I should call it "Modern" instead), but during the times I've tried to work on Windows 8 machines, it simply gets in the way.