Agreed. I have used Windows 8 a little. It is horribly designed and unintuitive.
I cannot imagine how the average office worker is going to use that interface. Even getting to the “start screen” is done in a strange way...no clicking...move the mouse to the upper right-hand corner. Then you can click on the window icon to get there.
What are they trying to do, drive away their core business users?
The touch experience is different on that Win 8 interface as opposed to using the interface with a mouse. With the ability to slide pages with fingers, slide tabs back and forth one finds Win 8 is much more intuitive then one first would expect. With the mouse though it is horrid and one is resentful that one has to buy a touch enabled screen to to get the full benefit of Windows 8 touch UI!