Its redundancy for the sake of people being comfortable with redundancy. Anything that was in the start menu can be placed as shortcuts on the taskbar or even on the desktop. That was why Microsoft got rid of it because its completely unnecessary. It took me half a day to get used to it not being there in Windows 8.
thats absolutely true and that can be said about a lot shyt people buy. its something that people felt was not broken and didnt need to be changed...and they said so with their $$$. i dig what youre saying but you got tech mojo...a lot of this shyt out there is a joke to youand me lets be real. the average joe is still the majority tho, and thats what they want. i dont see a REAL problem with it. i actually think its dope, its very convenient and intuitive
We'd been using the start menu since Windows 95 so about 20 years. Its time for Windows desktop UIs to evolve beyond that now. For all practical purposes they already have and did so when they allowed people to pin shortcuts to the taksbar. once you start using taskbar pinning for your most used programs you probably wouldn't use the start menu much anymore if at all. I'm pretty sure that was the official logic Microsoft presented when they dropped it.
Businesses will probably sick to Windows 7 like they previously did with Windows XP. Then if windows 10 us piff, they'll roll that out.