[dayglored]

> The UI (Presentation Layer) is the last, most superficial, and most easily replaced component of the OS.

Doesn't matter how easily replaced it is. The simple fact is that Microsoft screwed up royally, and no amount of "well we can repaint it" disguises that fact.

> Seriously. If your tech review can't get past agonizing over the Start menu...

It wasn't a tech review. It was commentary on the UI.

[tacticalogic]

Doesn't matter how easily replaced it is.

So it's no different that if they'd shipped it with unfixable errors in the basic architecture?