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First comment on this story is "'press the Windows key and start typing the name' Who on earth does that? I don’t want to TYPE anything. I want to point and click as much as possible! Even on a PC"

Which I think precisely differentiates the user model here on HN and the general public.

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I think search is very different from browsing. Browsing is appropriate at different times than search. Some people (independently of whether they are power users or not) like browsing more than search or search more than browsing.

There are many cases in which it makes sense to support those two modes†.

I launch all my apps using Spotlight but I hardly ever search for music in iTunes. In my music library I rely (nearly) solely on browsing, using search doesn’t do anything for me. (Maybe that’s because I have a very limited number of apps and I know all their names but I have so many more songs and I often don’t even know the title I want to play, just the general direction I want to go?)

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† And some in which it doesn’t really, e.g. web search.

I remain a mouse user except where I absolutely have to type things. I do recognize that this differentiates me from many if not most HN users :P.

I get the impression he's talking from a power user perspective.

Sometimes I can't think of the name of an app I use infrequently and I scan the start menu looking for a name that jogs my memory.

So will I now have to Google what the app does in order to find the name so I can start the program?

Or you're on someone elses machine and you want to see what apps are installed?

If you activate the Search Charm from the new Start page you are presented with an alphabetical listing of all installed application (Metro and Desktop).

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