This. I manage to keep emotions aside most of the time, I am cool working with Win/Linux/OS X. I have preferences but I won't cry if I have to work with someth

This. I manage to keep emotions aside most of the time, I am cool working with Win/Linux/OS X. I have preferences but I won't cry if I have to work with something which is not my top preference. And I am a happy user of Win8. I believe, most of the criticism is also because it's Microsoft. You know, just like PHP or VB6, it's an easy joke. And hardly anyone will give you weird looks for hating MSFT. Good luck with publicly hating Apple. Of course, there is some good criticism. But only some of it. Innovation is about failing until you find something new that works. Microsoft took a risk by offering something new, this time it didn't pay off. Microsoft people are not toddlers and they were aware of that. Yes, that kind of dashboards is not something unseen to human kind, but it's new having something like that as the first screen after OS loads. Metro is a good example of good idea, shit implementation. I really like the idea of a screen where everything in one place. It's something refreshing in desktop OSes. And the design of Metro apps looks visually appealing (e.g. Skype). But the implementation, default content is pretty bad. It's just not something I might need. And most of the things requiring MS Live account (even Calendar) killed any desire to explore.