Which means that for touch systems, this will simply end up like Windows Mobile 6: pretty UIs for touch screen, but as soon as you want to be productive, you need a mouse.
Sorry MS, I would never use what's in that video on my desktop.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2011/jun11/06-01...
With pinning/shortcuts, people barely use the "All Programs" part of the Start menu in the current Windows 7, so the only casualty is the start menu Search/Run, which will probably be re-implemented in the new start screen when you start typing on it.
Sorry, but that's not how it works. Microsoft needs to realize this. Everything he was doing there would be terrible with a mouse.
A scroll wheel could do most of them - the snapping of multiple apps being the only outlier.
All of them would work with a 2D scroll interface (trackpad with gestures, mouse with trackball/multiple scroll wheels or touch surface), and laptops are the main bit of kit people buy these days.
