“The CLEARLY did NO comsumer product testing. “
Actually, they did. Sort of. Hundreds of thousands of free advance “preview” copies were downloaded and tested by anyone who wanted to. Universally, almost all of those testers told Microsoft that Metro UI was horrifically awful and that if Microsoft persisted with it, not only would it take down Microsoft, but it would take down the entire PC industry and all of their OEM “partners” as well.
Microsoft ignored ALL of this massive feedback.
And the result is now history.
“Actually, they did. Sort of. Hundreds of thousands of free advance “preview” copies were downloaded and tested by anyone who wanted to. Universally, almost all of those testers told Microsoft that Metro UI was horrifically awful and that if Microsoft persisted with it, not only would it take down Microsoft, but it would take down the entire PC industry and all of their OEM “partners” as well.”
What, you’ve never seen the McDonalds cash register interface???