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I installed win8 CP in a VirtualBox image, once I got rid of Metro UI, it really is a minor evolution from Win7, I see very few theoretical needs for Corporate environment licensees to upgrade any time soon.

My more satirical side says that any new employee who requires win8 Metro UI and touchscreen to properly perform their job function should be immediately fired and replaced by a competent human being.

I used to sell touchscreen kiosks for retail/medical/kiosk industry niche, I don’t see any benefit to Metro UI for those applications. Many of the existing (Windows universe) touchscreen suites will be ported, but they almost all use custom UI overlays or are integrated into a WinNT compatible interfaces already.

My first reaction to Metro UI was a memory of how Office Suite 2000 introduced simpler slide transitions for PowerPoint and Microsoft used that as a selling point for the entire suite. For the 80%+ of Office users who never or rarely used PP, it had added no benefit.

I hear ya, but the new generation of computer users want a touch interface. CxOs are bring their iPad into work and demanding the IT guys figure out how to support it on their network.

Touch is here to stay for a long time, so get used to it or at least act like you understand it if you work in the IT field.

My more satirical side says that any new employee who requires win8 Metro UI and touchscreen to properly perform their job function should be immediately fired and replaced by a competent human being.

Further proof of why IT should have ZERO input on the rest of the operation.

These are the bozos who created fiefdoms in many corporations, strangling any freedom and limiting everything you can possibly do because they trust NOBODY with technology except themselves.

But at least your post was satire.