I wonder if Windows 8 will be accelerating this kind of thing. The metro UI is so annoying, useless and unsuitable in a corporate environment, it finally provides a climate where even people who like Windows are happier with Ubuntu than they are with Windows 8.
I know this horse has been already beaten to death... but, I just got a laptop with Win8 this week and I have to say this, my goodness I am just awestruck that this Metro interface actually made it to the public in its current form. What the hell happened? Isn't Microsoft a company that conducts very basic UI tests before shipping a big product?
I like to think of myself as a fairly technical person, and yet I could not figure out how to do simple things like close windows, change windows, shut down, etc. for a good while.
My dad, a 68 year old guy, calls himself a geek computer person, his friends affectionately/comically refer him to as a "computer genius". He was trying out the Win8 laptop the other day... and I heard him say "Hm, I'm not as good with computers as I thought I was". That just really made me very sad. I'm just going to get a Win7 laptop for him now.
To be honest, 8.1 is OK. It's not perfect but it sits in the rankings between XP and 7. It's also going to be a free upgrade.
Basically you can turn off most of the crap and use the start screen as a start menu and it's bearable. I'd take it over XP but not 7 (which it looks like I'll be using until 2020)
