See, there's the difference Ned! You are, and Gary to an extent, a nerd. You fully understand these programs, and have no issues making them operate the way you want. Then there is the rest of us (me). I don't want to have to learn a whole new operating system every time Microsoft gets a bug up there butt and decides that computing must look totally different.
To me a computer is a tool. I want it to do a specific set of functions, do them fast, without excess BS and keystrokes, and then just sit there, and wait for my next command. Just because some engineer thought it would be great fun to dump the "start" button and plug in a whole bunch of new functions, is mildly interesting. IT WASN'T BROKEN BEFORE. These are the kind of forced changes that make some folks just throw up their hands, and go back to their dial phones. END RANT.