Microsoft spectacularly fails: Early look at Windows 8 baffles consumers

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22. Exactly my thoughts.

The article used the right word, one is just "baffled" that Microsoft would release such an OS for a desktop when it's clearly made for a tablet. I suppose that Microsoft sees a big shift from desktops to tablets in the future and maybe that is the result. Just imagine your typical system administrator (no offense meant) accessing a server and seeing that...

I think/hope that we will see a repeat of what happened to Vista. Consumers will be fine staying with Win7 which was rightfully a big hit for Microsoft after many consumers just didn´t see any sense in changing from WinXP to Vista. At least I hope that is what happens.

Also, there is nothing wrong in changes or new functions. My problem is with being forced to use the new functions. I'm talking about the missing start button in particular, which was a central element for all these years and that was just removed. Now you have to wander around in the edges of the screen and search through some menus to shut down your computer? Horrible. Microsoft managed to make such an essential function harder to use. I wonder, how many users will call the poor souls in their IT department asking them how to turn off the computer...