>Metro. Kinect. Office Ribbon. Bing. ARM Surface. The list goes on to almost every product MS I assume when you say Metro, you mean on Windows 8. Metro on WP a

>Metro. Kinect. Office Ribbon. Bing. ARM Surface. The list goes on to almost every product MS I assume when you say Metro, you mean on Windows 8. Metro on WP and Xbox is really great, and I think 8.1 will fix a lot of problems with Metro on 8. Metro as a design language is, IMO, really good. Implementation on Windows, not so much. Kinect? The fastest selling consumer device in history? The numbers speak for themselves. Office Ribbon is a step forward in UI design for menu systems. Looking for a good resource on their thought process behind it, but you can see a partial explanation here. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2005/09/14/467126.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2005/09/14/467126.as... The ribbon backlash seems more against the fact that the UI changed than that the ribbon is bad UI design. Bing is a long term play and I think it's starting to pay off with FB, Apple, and Yahoo deals, not to mention the deep integratin of Bing services in Windows, Xbox, and Windows Phone. Arm Surface was a disaster. >Microsoft needs to stop pushing products for the benefit of Microsoft. I'd recommend the following: put up a poll and let the general public decide on issues like Metro - and then follow those results, even if it means throwing Metro out of the desktop. Microsoft needs to listen to customers simply because other businesses are listening to Microsoft's customers, and those customers are leaving. Design by committee is terrible. Design by the general population is even worse.