I am going to borrow a line from one of my favorite TV characters, Monk ...
"Here's the thing ..."
I use my Start orb/button/menu in Windows 7 ALL THE TIME. I run so many different apps, some of them about once in a blue moon, that I don't have them all on the left side of my Start menu. If I installed it, I will use it at some point, but not necessarily every day or even every week. Unlike some users, I do NOT clutter my desktop with shortcuts. Therefore if it's a rarely-used application (or just not one of my most often-used ones) I have to go to the All Programs menu or a desktop shortcut.
I fire up Word, Excel, Notepad, etc., from the Start menu, and I like the jump lists that pop out the recent stuff I've worked on. 9 times out of 10 that's what I want to go back and edit again.
So what are my options working in Windows 8, out-of-the-box, without some third-party add-on?
* I could pop back to the Start screen or All Apps to launch an app when I need to. Then I hope it doesn't fire up in full-screen mode and cover up everything I'm working on.
* I could go into the desktop, search for the app, and fire it up.
* I could launch it from Start -> Run
* I could put a shortcut on the desktop
* Find the program in Explorer and launch it that way
The point is that I want to run pretty much anything I have without the need to go back to the Start screen.
Now don't go off and tell me I need to learn the "new way" or that I'm just stuck in a rut. I know how I use Windows and I am quite happy using it in this way.
I'm fine with people who like the new OS. Maybe it's wonderful for you and the way you use it. I should not have to install a third-party application to make it work well for me. I personally find it awkward to navigate the OS to do something I might have to do just once in a while.
I'll be interested to see the reaction of ordinary, everyday non-technical users (I'm not one of them) after the OS has been out there for a while. Sure, given enough time and work with Winodws 8 I know I could learn the "new way" but my company isn't going to see Windows 8 for a while: so I work differently at the office than I do at home. Windows Surface tablets for all our corporate users? Not in the foreseeable (5+ years) future, for sure. Windows 8 on the desktop? Heck, if everyone in our company is on Windows 7 a year from now we'll be in good shape.
It's interesting that some people automatically assume that a video showing a viewpoint other than their own is biased. How did YOU react the first time you saw the new OS? Was it readily intuitive to you? Were you instantly able to do what you wanted to do? (I doubt it.) So then why are you surprised when someone who's never seen Win8 reacts in confusion? The accusations of "bias" are on both sides of the fence, folks: take a step back and see if there's really something to be learned from what you see and read - even if you don't agree!
Meanwhile, I'll keep chugging along happily in my Windows 7 world. As long as I can do what I need to do with my "senile, archaic" Windows 7, I'll keep using it. Whether I'm of the minority opinion a few weeks or months from now doesn't matter. Maybe I enjoy being an old fuddy-duddy!