Microsoft blames OEMs for slow Windows 8 sales, plans February "relaunch"

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230. I'm with you 100% - they created the Angry Fruit Salad.

You look at any professional web designer, and they'll tell you that they'll put together a color scheme that's a bit more coordinated. Granted, there are infinite variations, but usually, it's one or two colors, that are either adjacent to each other, or compliments to each other. That's why you'll see color combinations like blue and orange a lot. Also, you'll see designers pick one really bright color, then tone the other colors down.

The Windows 8 Start Screen just throws every color of the rainbow at you all at once, usually at full saturation and intensity to gratuitously maximize the eyestrain. The Angry Fruit Salad - it's gaudy, it's ugly, it's distracting, it's obnoxious.

I'm betting that it's the marketing people at Microsoft that put them up to this - the whole point of the Metro user interface (where the Start Screen puts you instead of the old desktop) was to nudge people to the App Store, so they can BUY! BUY! BUY!!! So they turned the Start screen of every Windows 8 machine into a used car dealership.