Good article from ZD Net regarding this and WIn 8:
I like Metro tile. I abandon print media years ago for the internet. So my customized start-up has WSJ live tiles, weather, the sports I LIKE and Free Republic. I also use the consolidated people contact. There are so cool apps that can snap metro programs to your desktop.
I think it is funny all the people that went apologetic over Ipad and criticized MS because they were in the past. Then MS does something bold and the first complaint is it is different than my old system.