My mom recently bought a Windows 8 laptop, and she seems happy with it. She's a non-technical but experienced Windows user. Here's the entire Windows 8 tutorial

My mom recently bought a Windows 8 laptop, and she seems happy with it. She's a non-technical but experienced Windows user. Here's the entire Windows 8 tutorial I gave: "This is the start screen; it replaced the start menu. To get to the regular desktop, hit the Windows key. To get back to the start screen, hit the Windows key again. To run a program, either find and click on its tile or just start typing to search for it." That's actually all it took; she worked the rest out on her own. I guess the ease of the transition depends on how well the user can acclimate to visual UI changes, even if the underlying interaction patterns haven't significantly changed.