Not really a u-turn. More like re-fining. It's like the Windows Vista to 7. Little tweaks here and there. Win 8 has many changes. Some to the UI, some under t

Not really a u-turn. More like re-fining. It's like the Windows Vista to 7. Little tweaks here and there. Win 8 has many changes. Some to the UI, some under the hood. Pretty impressed at the boot speed of Win 8 on a PC with an SSD. Took a few days to get used to the UI changes, utilising shortcut keys the same way I do on every other windows installs means I see very little of the metro/start screen unless I want to. My most used apps are all pinned to the start bar (eg: Chrome, Notepad++, etc). I think most average users probably have 4-5 most used apps, those apps should be pinned to the task bar. Doing that, it kinda acts a bit like the OS X dock and so they just need to click straight on those without searching through menus etc.