I can see why the whole Metro UI thing is gonna make a bunch of long-time Windows users sad. Microsoft knew that.However, I feel like they're solving much bigge

I can see why the whole Metro UI thing is gonna make a bunch of long-time Windows users sad. Microsoft knew that.However, I feel like they're solving much bigger problems with Metro - namely, the huge gap that currently sits between tablet/phone sized devices and desktops. It seems like this is going to be the first proper attempt at bridging that gap: a minimum screen resolution, sensible asset scaling for high dpi devices, good strategies for handling different resolutions, and technologies that are architecture-agnostic. Google and Apple don't seem anywhere close, yet; Google's ChromeOS was kind of a flop (though I guess we have docked mode to look forward to in new versions of Android), and Apple seems to be more busy with the iPad and making sure nobody ever uses a mouse again.