Sensationalism aside, how many 13 year olds need to install an OS from scratch. People love doing these 'I gave x Microsoft product to my great-grandfather's s

Sensationalism aside, how many 13 year olds need to install an OS from scratch. People love doing these 'I gave x Microsoft product to my great-grandfather's second cousin twice removed' and then spell out gloom and doom for M$ yet in attempting to be so realistic they become unrealistic. A not-so-tech-savvy friend of mine got an iPhone 4S and aside from the amusing mistakes in messages when I saw her next she exclaimed she was having a difficult time figuring everything out. Now, she's quite smart — if there any other Australians on here from Queensland, she got an OP 1 and is studying engineering. How many people press F1 and seek help? How many people read manuals at all for anything new they get? Windows has continuously changed and somehow the world hasn't ended yet. People would go out and buy Macs at the site of Windows8? Haha. Yes, those people with no experience outside of Windows would suddenly want to go get a Mac and there would be such a minimal learning curve for them that would be less than Win8. In the rush to criticise Win8 people have forgotten that the new Metro interface is already widely being used, at least in some form, on Windows 7 Phones, iPhone, Android, etc — grid display of apps, app store, the way Metro apps are switched, gestures, etc. All Windows users do not live in a complete bubble though I see how that's a convenient imaginary land to make neomodern comments on the internet. :P You could try using the classic desktop because.. I don't know how else to say this, it's the classic desktop. Hell, you can completely ignore the main Metro side of things. ;) When I tried the Consumer Preview I was able to just do that. At work one of the guys is only using Windows8 and does so in that fashion and he uses Dreamweaver, Fireworks and other misc. apps like FileZilla and whatnot.