i mostly agree, I'm more of a linux guy, but right now i work in a dotnet shop, so i run several windows vm's to develop in. i really like windows 8(not enough

i mostly agree, I'm more of a linux guy, but right now i work in a dotnet shop, so i run several windows vm's to develop in. i really like windows 8(not enough to be running it as a default windows, but enough to say i like it more than previous windows version). needless to say one of the first things i did was install start8, and then replace it with a free alternative once the trial ran out. sadly, none of the trials are on par with start8. battery life savings only because of metro? I'm not sure about that. windows 8 added a whole bunch of acpi modes in conjunction with intel(i think ?). linux is struggling to catch up with that. it's starting to seem like the best way to run linux on a modern machine is to run windows8 locked down and linux as a fullscreen vm but saying sinofsky was responsible for replacing the start menu and start8 will "save" windows 8 seems a little far fetched. with microsofts hands all over the government, i don't see microsoft and windows 8 going away anytime soon. and with a whole bunch of hybrids coming up i can only see it getting more and more prominent