There's a lot of good stuff under the hood in Win8 (file system improvements, etc). Unfortunately, the Windows UI was taken over by zealots, and that never ends

There's a lot of good stuff under the hood in Win8 (file system improvements, etc). Unfortunately, the Windows UI was taken over by zealots, and that never ends well. I think that Win8 could be saved if MS just published a few registry tweaks, combined with a checkbox saying that "No, I don't want to use Metro, ever." But it would require someone in upper management to admit they were wrong. They would get a bad review. Sadly, it's better to let customers go and let revenue slide than to admit that you were wrong, in a company like Microsoft.