It seems Microsoft knows that computing is moving more mobile and into touch screens, and they also know that the standard Windows UI doesn't translate too well

It seems Microsoft knows that computing is moving more mobile and into touch screens, and they also know that the standard Windows UI doesn't translate too well in those situations, so they made this new metro UI paradigm. In a way they had to do something like that to stay relevant. Unfortunately, I think they're pushing the Metro UI too hard for Windows 8. Metro UI to me will probably be about as useful as Launchpad is on my Mac with a mouse. (Not at all) The only difference I see is that all the PR surrounding Windows 8 is about Metro while Launchpad wasn't completely the focus of the Lion PR, and it's also not enabled on by default. You have to start Launchpad from the dock before it affects you in any way. My solution is to just not do that. I wish Windows 8 PR was mainly focused on performance improvement and then they mentioned, "Oh we added Metro UI too if you want to use it." Better performance is always an easy sell for me, while new UI's I don't need aren't.