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Sorry, but if you think “tweaking” to see a big screen full of apps listed and having to scroll through multiple screens vs a few centimeters of mouse movement is the equivalent of windows 7, you are in denial, and lets not even get into if you are foolish enough to launch a metro app and want to figure out how to actually close it.

Its a disaster, I know MS wants to spin it otherwise, but the market has spoken, its so much of a disaster not only are they trying to get a replacement out the door in the quickest time possible, they are skipping an entire version number in hopes it will further distance themselves from it.

I can speak first hand, I could use a hardware upgrade, but I have held off due to Windows 8... have to work with it at work and its a fustercluck to put it nicely. Even though it will cost me 3-4 times as much to buy new Mac hardware, I will almost certainly buy a Mac to replace my personal windows machine... and I know I am not alone, and be done with MS once and for all.

Whoever thought lets take the ZUNE effing interface and make it the default desktop/laptop experience was a complete moron. MS thought, like IBM did back in the day, they could force users/customers to their way of thinking... It didn’t work. If you have to EXPLAIN how your UX/UI is superior, then your UX/UI is a failure.

They are becoming less relevant in the consumer world daily, largely because with mobile, just like the internet they were so damned worried about protecting their turf they missed the boat.. but unlike the 90s where they could use their ubiquitous ownership of the desktop to force their crap on folks, the world has moved on.

Its a post MS world, and while the company will continue on, its days of being any sort of driver in the marketplace, particularly the consumer marketplace are long long gone.