roger that. It is an absolute horrible desktop environment. If one was trying to create the most unintuitive, clunky, distracting, nightmarish, destop experience possible they could not come up with a better suited product than Windows 8. Perhaps this is only true for longtime windows uses like myself who are very adept with their traditional product. Maybe the younger generation brought up on cellphones and tablets don't feel the same ways. But I bet those guys are the ones reponsible for mass business purchases and trying to get work done in a business . Windnows 8 has me seriously considering just going over to Apple or possibly Linux for everything from here on out.
“Perhaps this is only true for longtime windows uses like myself who are very adept with their traditional product. Maybe the younger generation brought up on cellphones and tablets don’t feel the same ways.”
No. In my experience most hate it (myself included, because a touch screen environment on a desktop is a horrible idea) or are ambivalent at best. Also, keep in mind that my generation grew up on Apple cellphones and Ipods and Microsoft’s version just isn’t as flashy or cool.
Yeah, I thought that too, but I work with a bunch of young 'uns and the verdict is pretty solidly against Win8 as a desktop environment. A tablet isn't a desktop, true, but it isn't a cellphone either. And we're not really at the point where one user interface will rule them all, bring them in the darkness and bind them.
Maybe it never will. I use an iPad, a laptop, and a desktop for fundamentally different things. I'm very happy with the Surface Pro and could happily replace the 'Pad and the lappy with it on a hardware level, but replacing iOS and Win7 with one platform running Win8 just isn't a transition I'm willing to make - it's a downgrade to both of the former, IMHO.
Under the hood Win8 is actually pretty impressive. But the Metro interface is a deal breaker. Others' mileage may vary.