"Start" does not refer to starting things, it refers to the first button you need to click to make the computer do things, i.e. it's the starting point for doin

"Start" does not refer to starting things, it refers to the first button you need to click to make the computer do things, i.e. it's the starting point for doing anything. In a bare Windows 95 install, you have your "My Computer" and "My Documents" icons on the desktop and to do everything else you start by clicking on "Start". I don't think I could come up with a better name for the button that serves as the starting point of almost any interaction. Nothing else comes to mind that will both communicate the button's purpose and simultaneously entice users who don't know what to do to click it.