Microsoft explains reason for ditching Start button in Windows 8

Microsoft shocked the world when it decided to remove the Start button from Windows 8. The removal of the button, which has been featured in the operating system for more than 15 years, puzzled many early adopters. In an interview with PCPro, however, Microsoft revealed that consumers had actually stopped using the button in favor of the taskbar. ?When we evolved the taskbar [in Windows 7] we saw awesome adoption of pinning [applications] on the taskbar,? said Chaitanya Sareen, principal program manager at Microsoft. ?We are seeing people pin like crazy. And so we saw the Start menu usage dramatically dropping, and that gave us an option. We?re saying ?look, Start menu usage is dropping, what can we do about

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