>Developing for Metro might be amazing, but developing on Metro is a non-starter. You can run the full Visual Studio 2012 natively on any x86 tablet such as th

>Developing for Metro might be amazing, but developing on Metro is a non-starter. You can run the full Visual Studio 2012 natively on any x86 tablet such as this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxJQotodEVQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxJQotodEVQ Does Android or the iPad have a full featured native IDE with debugging support without resorting to hacks? >Since most "hackers" will spend most of their time on the traditional desktop anyway, they see little reason to upgrade from Windows 7. You do realize that the Desktop on Windows 8 will run all programs that run in Windows 8 right? And Windows 8 contains major improvements to the Desktop like file copying, multiscreen taskbar support etc. etc.