The only time I ever see Metro on my desktop is when I hit the windows key and type part of a program name to launch it... which is exactly the same user experience as the start menu.
No it's not. Cease being such a Microsoft fanboy, you applaud anything and everything they try to shove down their user's throat!
The Metro thing is an absolute disaster. People
do not expect to have to write a program's name in order to launch it. Not even have to
know the name. On Windows at least. Having to know all the names of the programs is a command line logic, something Windows distinguished itself for not requiring. Worse, it's a command logic without any of the command line's benefits, for Windows always (and still) promoted stand-alone programs and despised the idea of shell pipes or command parameters (doable, but not really often used).
Microsoft is in full suicidal mode. And no amount of fanboyism will save this OS. It's a disaster worse than Windows ME. Right at a time when between visualization and the rise of new architectures and systems Windows is losing its necessity status. Windows at home and windows on schools is going the way of the dodo. Windows at the enterprise, Microsoft's big cash cow, may follow in a few year's time if some company can put together a good management system for a linux distro. Chef and Puppet don't quite cut it yet, too difficult for the "mouse engineers". But they're getting traction.
Windows 8 is exclusively about Microsoft leveraging on the still extant ubiquity of the Windows system to cash in on the "app shop" rent model that has proved so profitable for Apple and Google. The problem is that Windows cannot be turned into a walled garden like iOS and Android. Microsoft's enterprise customers won't consent to that and Microsoft's software developer partners will fell betrayed and migrate to other plantforms.
En masse. Even the ex-miscrosoftie Gabe Newell is already arranging the migration of the vast Valve game system for Linux. Windows phone has been a repeated, massive failure. Windows RT will be another failure, it has
nothing compelling about it: no installed base to leverage on, no price advantage, and a confusing brand (it's Windows but it's not Windows). The Windows brand itself is becoming a liability.
By trying to keep its traditional base and at the same time enter the "app"/"walled garden" thing Microsoft will make enemies of both kinds of target public.
