I’m in the tech world too and what I’m finding is that the younger audience loves it. The old farts don’t.
I think that's pretty accurate.
The "old farts" (that being anyone over 25, and anyone who wants to actually get work done) will find some other way to get their work done. It's not too hard to remove the stupid Merde ... uh... Merkin ... uh... Metro UI, and beat the Vista ... uh... Win7 ... uh Win8-desktop UI into reasonable shape to get work done. Many will do that. Others will migrate to Macs or Linux or stick with Win7 until hell freezes over.
The younger audience doesn't give a damn about getting work done. They're into teeny tiny tweets and SMSs, social networking and who is dating whom, and for them, the fact that their PC looks like a damn phone is just dandy.
What's truly sad is that Microsoft is forsaking their core constituency -- business users who MUST get work done -- for the sake of chasing after the "younger audience".
The young audience is fickle. They have no brand loyalty, and instead they have the attention span of a gnat.
Yeah, young people will like it. From the looks of it, the very young. Windows 8 Metro has a kindergarten feel. Legos and Play-Do.