More fundamentally, Windows Phone's interface was not built to be just another application launcher.

An application launcher is a computer program that helps a user to locate and start other computer programs.

The eccentric application launcher, for example, is still a sore spot in an otherwise elegant desktop.

This allows the Start menu to act as a fast and powerful application launcher.

This feature is also employed in application launchers such as Quicksilver 1.0.

The bottom part of the home screen is the application launcher.

The Dash is an overlay that exposes all of the application launchers and provides quick access to files.

But the Dock falls short, especially for novice users, as an application launcher.

A key new feature was the Dock, an application launcher which took full advantage of these capabilities.

The environment's built-in file manager is incomplete, and its application launcher exhibited mediocre performance during our tests.