I'm not sure why an OS has to retain a 20 year old UI paradigm if a nicer method appears to replace it. If Metro actually replaced Windows classic I would agre

I'm not sure why an OS has to retain a 20 year old UI paradigm if a nicer method appears to replace it. If Metro actually replaced Windows classic I would agree but it doesn't. It just sits there on the side and randomly throws you out of a comfortable environment. Running two entirely different GUIs in parallel is infinitely confusing to normal people. Microsoft could have probably got away with this if they did it 5 years ago when there was no competition to the PC. People would have had to just deal with the change but that's no longer the case. A lot of those PC buyers are just going to end up with iPads instead.