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Uh, I’ve got two degrees in computer science, 40 years experience in computing and networking, and 15 years experience with PCs and Windows, and I wasn’t too much better off than that guy’s dad. Within 30 minutes of installing W8, I literally wanted to scream and throw heavy objects at my computer. Trying to use W8 CP wasn’t an academic exercise for me either. I needed to port a large amount of code to it as well as be prepared to support my customers in the future.

I finally just gave up. But I did come back a few weeks later and installed Classic Shell to restore the Start Menu, as well as inventing novel hacks to the registry that no one else had done in order to automatically skip Metro UI to go right to the real desktop on W8 Consumer Preview. (The hacks were difficult because the methods used to skip Metro UI on Developer Preview had been deliberately disabled by Microsoft.)

I predict W8 will be a bigger disaster for MS than Windows 95/98/Me and Vista combined. I can’t wait to see the new Apple ads impugning Metro UI: “If you think Vista was bad, have you tried Metro UI yet?” All they’d have to do is film a bunch of folks using Metro UI the first time and then extract a montage. It would be funnier than a barrel of monkeys and quite instructive too.

I will be buying some LEAP PUTS on MS and on PC ETFs if MS does indeed release W8 as it stands now.