I doubt you'll be able to disable it, but presumably you could just remove all the tiles if you really don't want them. Personally I think it might be a good i

I doubt you'll be able to disable it, but presumably you could just remove all the tiles if you really don't want them. Personally I think it might be a good idea. It seems like a reboot of what Microsoft was going for with the Windows Sidebar (or the Start screen, obviously) in a format that actually works with desktop Windows's overall UI paradigm.