>It greatly simplifies the overall interface for the average user. Funny, it was the average user that told me time and time again that they just wanted a norm

>It greatly simplifies the overall interface for the average user. Funny, it was the average user that told me time and time again that they just wanted a normal Windows. Not this childish looking tablet UI. And the first order of business for me was to wipe that Tile Fest and install an OS that average user actually wanted to use. As long as MS plows ahead with this unification nonsense of systems that are inherently different and are therefore by definition not able to be unified, Windows 8 and any iteration they put out in the future will see the same reception. If what feels like 90% of the users tell you "once you install start8 and boot to desktop its not that bad", you should know that the Metro crap doesn't fly on desktop. But does MS listen? Hell no. Plow ahead with unification. Whoever had this idea that systems which are so different from each should be "gifted" with an identical, non optional UI should have been fired a long time ago. Remove the Tiles shit from the desktop version, apologize and promise to never do that again and then we can talk about me upgrading my desktop OS. But until that happens, it stays on Win7 and nothing of value was lost.