StartIsBack 2.1 RC1 - You’ve just found the way to relieve your (and your users) Windows 8 pain. StartIsBack returns Windows 8 a real fully featured start menu and start button, behaving exactly like the ones in Windows 7. StartIsBack radically improves desktop usability and makes new Start screenclutter-free. StartIsBack is fully native lightweight zero-privileges program, cheap and fair, fast, stable and secure.
Think of it as a transition path which Microsoft should have made for Windows 8.
We also even have a movie. How awesome is that?