I actually found one change to the Start Menu the enabling change for me: Typing the name of something and (often) just getting the application that I wanted to start. Just saying what I want and let the machine to the finding for me just feels like the way things should be done to me.

> So they ripped off OSX Spotlight (which stole it from Quicksilver/etc) - I've used spotlight to launch apps with 3-4 keyclicks since forever:

OSX: CMD+space,Fir<return> = Launch Firefox and Win7: WINkey, Fir <return> = Launch Firefox