Microsoft has told PC Pro that their decision to remove the start menu from Windows 8 is because people are hardly using it. According to a product manager of Microsoft they have gathered data through their Microsoft Experience Improvement Program and this data shows that people have adopted pinning applications on the task bar instead of using the start menu. Besides pinning people are also using keyboard shortcuts (such as Windows Key 1 to start IE).
The decision to remove the start menu from Windows 8 has been highly controversial and also users of Myce have been widely discussing this. The decision is often seen as a way to force Metro upon users. Many see this new interface as more suitable to touch devices. PCPro also mentioned this to the Microsoft product manager and she gave a clear answer: "[Metro] works well with the mouse and keyboard".
