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all it really needed was a start button
Course they aren't. It's a horrible OS for desktops. It's fine for laptops and tablets though.
I wonder who it was at Microsoft who actually thought that god awful Metro UI would take off? A start button isn't going to save Windows 8 from being the failure that it is. I'm looking to get a new laptop next month and the first thing I'll be doing with it is downgrading to windows 7.
Too little too late. Typical Microsoft, they thought they could force this Metro interface upon consumers. Windows 8 was too much of a leap to take, it should have been a transitional OS. Microsoft should have marketed it as having this new modern metro interface BUT made it an option and allow users to boot straight to desktop and have the regular Start button. By the time Windows 9 came along Metro would be more familiar, there would be more native metro apps and less reason to drop to desktop and users might just switch over but as it stands now consumers don't like Metro or Windows 8 and it will forever be tainted with this bad feeling.
It look like an Xbox UI... that's not something I want to see on my desktop.