>> "2. Developers as well as normal users are actively looking for ways to avoid having to interact with Metro." It hasn't been officially launched yet: how ma

>> "2. Developers as well as normal users are actively looking for ways to avoid having to interact with Metro." It hasn't been officially launched yet: how many normal users have spent more than a few minutes with it? Personally after playing with it for a few weeks I really like it. I've just started developing for it too (being an iOS developer for the last 4 years) and within a few days I am up to speed. >> "2. Developers as well as normal users are actively looking for ways to avoid having to interact with Metro." I think this is good. It forces developers to have to learn the new API's. If they didn't do this people would continue to build desktop apps (largely because people are lazy and it's easier to continue working with what you know) and the best apps wouldn't turn metro. Nudging developers to go metro means that when Windows 9 comes around they can get rid of the stupid split (metro/desktop) interface.