I'm not entirely agreeing with everything here - there was a lot of communication going on through the Windows developer blogs, with (at times ridiculously long

I'm not entirely agreeing with everything here - there was a lot of communication going on through the Windows developer blogs, with (at times ridiculously long) postings on the state of Win8 development. The problem was however that this was a total one-way communication. The hundreds of comments (some angry, some reasonable) below were ignored. I don't think there was a single positive response to ditching the start button over the metro interface. Yet still they did it (and it's shit, as expected (imho)). Granted, there was a lot of whining about dropping the Glass look as well, and I have to admit that the new win8 theme looks quite nice now that I see it in real life. The fact however that the first thing I do is put a shortcut to a shutdown batch file on my desktop, so I don't have to jump through hoops to find that menu, says it all. I ditched win8 within days.