> I'd like to know the real reason why. My guess is their plan is to try to leverage their desktop dominance into mobile. By forcing existing desktop users int

> I'd like to know the real reason why. My guess is their plan is to try to leverage their desktop dominance into mobile. By forcing existing desktop users into their mobile experience. And hope that'll be familiar enough to buy old windows users into their mobile ecosystem, but not different enough to scare them away to a different desktop. The start menu is just one of the many pieces that doesn't work well on mobile. So they'll also get rid of it on the desktop, hoping that'll get desktop users familiar with WP. Yea, a bad plan, but I guess that's their vision.