I get that moving forward means breaking existing paradigms. I'm happy that MS is trying Metro (not so happy with the horribly anti-user policies surrounding Me

I get that moving forward means breaking existing paradigms. I'm happy that MS is trying Metro (not so happy with the horribly anti-user policies surrounding Metro, but I digress), and don't mind that it's a change. That said, they need to leave some kind of path for existing users to map concepts onto the new UI. A great example of this, I think, is in Gnome Shell, where the "Activities" hotcorner is clearly labelled, and fills the same UI role as the "Applications" menu in previous versions of Gnome. A user moving from Gnome 2 would likely try to click Activities, and while they may be surprised at the overlay that results, would still find all their applications in one place there. From the looks of it, Windows 8 provides no such path for users to attach existing intuition to. Change is fine, but it has to be done well.