Oh I agree, there are a lot of rage videos popping up, happened with w7 and vista too.
Still my point is valid. There are a lot of people who don't use the windows key (don't seem to realise it even exists in my experience) while a simple prompt of all your stuff at the push of one button would suffice. The reason it's such a big deal is the metro experience on a tablet is completely different from a pc. Moreover, you use both devices differently yet you are being forced to use your pc like your tablet. Poking the edge of a screen with your fingers is easy, dragging the edge of the screen not so much, or as intuitive.
Yeah, I'm not really out to discredit what you say as such because I understand a lot of the concerns. With a lot of the Metro stuff there really isn't a right or wrong answer. I just like to offer an alternative (and hopefully rational) point of view and call out FUD.
There is still a "one stop shop" for all of your apps as I see it. You just get there slightly differently with a mouse and it's no longer a menu. I'm willing to bet average users won't really care as long as they can get to their email and open Word.
At the same time metro is completely closed down meaning everything you get you get from ms, advertising, sales (very in your face, like the xbox these days), apps etc. forcing you to use a ms account, forcing you to receive their advertising (guaranteeing every pc user will see an add has to be worth a pretty penny). While it's true none of us are forced to use a pc, by nature of required software we have to. Ms are on course for a record fine from the EU with this
"Closed down" is quite a broad term and is not universally a bad thing. But that's another discussion altogether.
It's also not really true that all roads lead back to Microsoft and Microsoft alone. Developers can use their own ad providers and with regards to "seeing ads" there are strict requirements that advertisements are NOT placed in live tile updates, notifications etc.
And you're not forced to use a Microsoft account either, unless you mean specifically to make purchases within the store. Even in that scenario, having a Microsoft account is inconsequential as you can sign up for one with a gmail, yahoo address etc. They need SOME way of authenticating you as a user and you're forgetting that Microsoft provide a lot of back-end services through that account.
And if you're not bothered about Metro apps or any of the cloud features you can opt out altogether by just creating a local user account as you would with any prior version of Windows.
The biggest EU cloud on the horizon in my opinion is how they've implemented Internet Explorer on Windows RT. That'll be interesting.
Someone summed the problem up quite well:
After reading Mr. Case's test drive experiences, it seems to me that I'll need to constantly fight through the experience Microsoft wants me to have to get to the computing experience I'm looking for.
It's a shame that is is ultimately the way many people receive w8, which is a shame as it's rather good underneath once you tweak things
Rather coincidentally, that quote actually sums up an entirely different problem for me. He/she is talking about
somebody else's experience of Windows 8 and forming an opinion. Too many people are doing that.
