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People always make such silly predictions. The “I’m used to X, and this isnt X, so it’s scary, therefore it’s bad” attitude.

Those people can always keep Windows 7.

I see Win8 really catching on as most people will just learn it, and adopt their routine to it.

Look at how some people reacted so negatively to the iPad. Now they swear by it.

I am looking forward to touch screen desktops. (as in my desk’s actual top)

non touchscreen monitors will be going away.

Those people can always keep Windows 7.

Sure they can, for a short time. I seem to remember Microsoft essentially killing off support for XP when Vista came out, even though XP was much better. When I bought my laptop years ago, I would have had to pay an extra ~$200 to install XP instead of Vista. On a $600 machine.

How long will Microsoft take before Win7 support starts dwindling as they try to encourage people to move to 8? When there's a premium for new computers having Win7?

Win8 will catch on for some people, and it looks great for tablet/phone interfaces. But as a lap/desktop OS? Not so much. Some change is good, I'll agree. But like Office 2010, when they changed every menu around, renamed half of them, that just makes it that much more difficult for people to use the product. This'll end up like Facebook. Devs come out with random changes that don't really improve anything, and half the user base will complain and be ignored. Then they'll go on and use it, cause there is no other option for them.

“I see Win8 really catching on as most people will just learn it, and adopt their routine to it.”

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. That’s what quickstart, desktop shortcuts, and the Start Menu are for.

I, and thousands of other power users tried W8 and we have all given it thumbs down. I was unable to work until I hacked the registry to disable Metro UI and installed Classic Shell to restore the Start Menu.

And don’t tell me I can’t adapt. I’ve worked with computers for 42 years, the last 17 years with PCs. I worked in a corporate environment as the chief network engineer for a corporation with over a 1000 employees. There’s simply no way that Windows 8 as it’s currently configured will be adopted on PCs by anybody except people who have no other choice but to buy their next PC from bestbuy. And even then, i’m guessing most will be taking them back.

Governments and corporations are simply not going to retrain millions of their employees to use an interface designed to work well only on touch screen devices that have screens the size of a credit card.

“I see Win8 really catching on as most people will just learn it, and adopt their routine to it.”

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. That’s what quickstart, desktop shortcuts, and the Start Menu are for.

I, and thousands of other power users tried W8 and we have all given it thumbs down. I was unable to work until I hacked the registry to disable Metro UI and installed Classic Shell to restore the Start Menu.

And don’t tell me I can’t adapt. I’ve worked with computers for 42 years, the last 17 years with PCs. I worked in a corporate environment as the chief network engineer for a corporation with over a 1000 employees. There’s simply no way that Windows 8 as it’s currently configured will be adopted on PCs by anybody except people who have no other choice but to buy their next PC from bestbuy. And even then, i’m guessing most will be taking them back.

Governments and corporations are simply not going to retrain millions of their employees to use an interface designed to work well only on touch screen devices that have screens the size of a credit card.