We only have like 3 laptops that are running Windows 8 in production. All others are Windows 7 (actually probably still have a couple of XP laptops too). I've seen this on computers though that come or users that bring in systems. I can understand as it's supposed to speed things up for the user - yada yada yada - but the user should be able to easily choose a "real" restart without having to research it. There are actually even what I call "warm reboots" where sometimes a device like a NIC or Video Card will remember it's state and not recover on a reboot but if you do a full shut down, wait a couple seconds and power back up it will be just fine. Doesn't happen often but when it does you're like WTH

So having this fake reboot has pros and cons to it.