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.
While I agree with a lot of what you said, the fact is this young crowd is the future. And the way they get things done is different—so different many older people don’t understand it.
I’ve been to training on this bunch and I was pretty much thinking like you posted, but the reality is we need to figure it out and not just dismiss it. And that’s where I disagree with you—you appear to be dismissive of the younger bunch. I’m trying to figure it out. Not the dating piece, but the working aspects and the interactions that get things done. I’m sure the old farts of your day were saying PCs are stupid—I have a phone. How can you get anything done via email. You need to go stop by their office and go to lunch to get anything done.