I hated the 8.1 start screen, but I think even that could have been turned into something really cool and useful. The fact that they never iterated on that eith

I hated the 8.1 start screen, but I think even that could have been turned into something really cool and useful. The fact that they never iterated on that either is just mind-boggling. Only a company as entrenched and wealthy as Microsoft can afford to expend that much effort and then throw it all out a few years later, just to start over from scratch again.