Is it what the populace wants? Well, given that there's been little to no innovation in native Windows applications in the past five years, I think it's fair t

Is it what the populace wants? Well, given that there's been little to no innovation in native Windows applications in the past five years, I think it's fair to say the populace doesn't want the status quo. Microsoft has to do something. I don't like what they chose to do (I worked on Win8 for a while before quitting, in part because of their direction), but it's clear to me that they had to take some risks or be faced with an inevitable slow obsolescence.