Start button/Program menu in Windows Vista

["Paul Hanson" <phanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com>]

I was looking at this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/web/expert/bowman_vistapreview.
mspx and in the "Find your programs on the Start menu" section, I
noticed that the "Start" button is now an icon. Also, the entire
navigation to an app on the Start menu has been changed to have an entry
field where the user types the name of the app. 

Has anyone had to address this specific user interface change in their
doc? 

If you haven't had to address it yet, I'd be interested in your thoughts
re: how you plan to handle it. 

Are you going to include a graphic of the new "Start" icon? 

Are you still going to refer to it as "Start" button even though the
word "Start" is now missing? 

Are you going to instruct the user to type "the entire name of your app"
in your instructions to find it and then double-click? 

Are you going to have two navigation paths, one for Vista, one for XP
and lower?

I've identified this user interface will impact the following in the doc
I maintain:
|
 15 Internal doc HTML files 
 70 End-User Word doc files to evaluate <== there could be more than one
reference 	in a single Word doc]
113 End-User HTML files 
|
If you have an example you can share, I'd be interested in a starting
point re: how to handle this in my doc.

Paul Hanson
Technical Writer
RoboHelp ACE -
http://www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/robohelp.html
Quintrex Data Systems http://www.quintrex.com
email: phanson at quintrex.com 
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