said by izy:I Not trying to get anal here but have you tried 8.
Yup. I have installed it as an upgrade on separate machine that I'm using for installer testing.
My point here is that I have 43 folders of shortcuts for installed software and misc. MS stuff in my Start menu under All Programs. Each folder contains a minimum of 2-3 shortcuts. Some (like MS Office Enterprise) have more than 10 shortcuts.
When I install Windows software on Win8 Pro, it automatically puts all of the installed program's shortcuts at the top level in the Metro Start page. Since you can't create folders on the Metro Start page, you can't organize the shortcuts easily. That would be about 200 shortcuts compared to your 50 or so.
Of those, I would want an average of two shortcuts per program and so I would have to delete the rest. So I still have to go to the apps page to get at the utility or uxiliary programs, which will have about 300 icons on it, also with no folders to organize it. But that still leaves about double the number of tiles that you have on your Metro Start page. And that's not including any RT apps.
Since I can't make the tiles smaller, there is no efficient way of organizing this. So, I have to scroll back and forth, without the benefit of a touch screen.
After about 20 hours of actual work-related usage, I find the Metro Start screen horribly inefficient for desktop work use.
Edit: BTW, Metro Start screen is a scroll mouse to corner plus one click away from the desktop, so launching another program for me is scroll mouse to corner + click + scroll Start screen to show tile + click (or right-click Start screen, click App charm, scroll to find shortcut + click). It is not one click.