It's only the start screen for now.

Personally, I don't get the fuss over that. It's just as many clicks as the start menu was, while giving you more information at a glance. It's not as if you'd ever pull up the start menu and not be giving it your full attention anyways.

It's got some flaws now with giving a panel for every piece of documentation that comes with a new install and suchlike, but that shouldn't be too hard to fix.