You have a keyboard with a start button on it don't you? That activates the start menu, which no longer exists in Metro. It has nothing to do with the Start bu

You have a keyboard with a start button on it don't you? That activates the start menu, which no longer exists in Metro. It has nothing to do with the Start button itself not existing as a little circle in the lower left -- it's that the whole launcher / hierarchical list no longer exists. Microsoft is a usability disaster. They have gone through so many aborted abandoned half-efforts that this adds another cluster-f to the mess. But never all the way (Metro most certainly isn't. The half-baked shell is missing the enormous bulk of core functionality that requires you to delve through the history of abandoned prior efforts. And in Windows 2015 you'll have to fall back to the Metro interface to do the small amount they implement in it), so you'll still have the control panels and the MMC consoles and the managed consoles in the server manager and the metro consoles and the.... jesus, that company is a catastrophe, desperately trying to solidify inertia, but only turning it to jello.