LOL!
I noticed that you didn’t deny my assertion that obviously you’re not a power PC user. Instead, you just ranted and raved.
“Obviously you’re not a professional, power PC user. I am. I program for a living. I open dozens of programs dozens of times each during development. No way, no shape, no form does Metro UI allow that quickly.”
This was your assertion. I told you all the ways to quickly open these “dozens” of programs you supposedly use in one day. 2/3 of that are already existing methods while the third, pressing the windows key and typing the name of the program, works the same way as it does with the current Start menu.
And yes I do use a number of programs myself, SDKs as well as graphics programs on windows 8 without a meltdown.
Then again, I’m able to embrace new tech far easily than some.