"If I was in charge of Windows that is likely what I would do. Make Windows for Desktop and Windows for Touch, with starkly different UIs and designs, but with

"If I was in charge of Windows that is likely what I would do. Make Windows for Desktop and Windows for Touch, with starkly different UIs and designs, but with some emulation layer so people can run a touch app on the desktop (in like a sandbox window)." I agree that this would be much better than current Windows 8; Microsoft isn't full of idiots, so I imagine there are people working for MS who are aware that the attempt to combine tablet and desktop interfaces in Windows 8 is producing a pretty shit product. The question is, what is it that is compelling Microsoft to pursue this approach, even though the immediate product it produces isn't very good? I assume the top people at Microsoft think there is commercial pressure to use their dominance on the desktop to strengthen their position on tablets, and they think the mediocrity of Windows 8 is a price worth paying to achieve that.