I think the complaint is that you can't just click on Start / All programs and see all your installed apps.

>I don't understand the complaints about "no start menu" I spend almost all my time on the desktop and don't miss old start menu at all.
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>>I agree - I think Micro$oft made a blunder by not giving us the ability to boot to desktop and have a start menu if you want. There are some workarounds though http://www.pcworld.com/article/261980/give_windows_8_the_start_menu_it_deserves.html ...I haven't tried any of them yet but of course anytime you start plopping 3rd part software on your PC to do things like that you're really asking for problems.