It felt like somebody on very high level decided to have unified experience for both tablets and desktops. Then those people who told this is impossible to do (

It felt like somebody on very high level decided to have unified experience for both tablets and desktops. Then those people who told this is impossible to do (well) in given timeframe were ignored. Windows 8 was what they managed to scrape together before running out of time. Delay was not an option as the tablet hardware launch was depending on the OS.