On the contrary, you can fit far more icons than the desktop without it looking like a mess, the desktop starts looking bad after you get a single row or column of icons.
You can pin desktop IE to the start screen.
Again, it doesn't boot to Metro, it boots with the start screen open. Presumably the first thing you do when you boot is launch a program, (rather than right clicking on the desktop and doing stuff there) - you can launch stuff just as effectively from the start screen as you can from the desktop.
You can pin desktop IE to the start screen.
Again, it doesn't boot to Metro, it boots with the start screen open. Presumably the first thing you do when you boot is launch a program, (rather than right clicking on the desktop and doing stuff there) - you can launch stuff just as effectively from the start screen as you can from the desktop.