Don't be a drama queen now
I'm just pointing out that I think a great many people (and I am not talking about the likes of anybody using this forum) buying pc's with Windows 8 are going to be stumped. As stated, they have enough difficulty remembering how to open their email when there is a clearly labelled shortcut right in front of them, hide stuff and they're going to get nowhere fast.
WHile I'm firmly against the, build it for stupid people first, everyone else will have to deal with it, so screw stupid people who can't open e-mail, for people have trouble opening e-mail, they don't tend to e-mail much anyway and I couldn't give a crap about them.
On the other hand, I feel like its a step forward and backwards, snap to/multitasking has some serious improvements, as do a lot of the things you can do fairly quickly and it feels smooth and neat. However the start/tiles thing seems exactly what I dislike, people who need a picture to show them everything, and frankly if you open the computer and rather than look in a menu, there is a button saying e-mail, I fail to see how that is harder to use than windows 7, infact, its much much easier. Its much cleaner and more obvious than a windows desktop, you can remove everything for a PC illiterate user and leave a huge tile with E-mail on it, a huge box with IE, and get rid of everything else?
Also frankly being that its designed for tablets to a large degree, someone who has real trouble with computers, a screen where you press the tile that says e-mail is about as easy as it gets.
Meh, the video is good anyway, I was as 99% of the people on the planet, distrusting of new things. Not really, Win 7 is really just the first windows that, doesn't crash, is stable, does what I want(mostly) and I just didn't feel the need to move on and pay to do so. However the video impressed me a lot, I don't want to read about win 8 and be told tiles are great along with "its for tablets" everywhere. A video that shows a advanced user moving around quickly is far more telling and explanatory to me and has certainly made me consider moving to it.
One question to anyone that has it, does the multitasking/splitting up screen work with multiple aps, and can it only split up the screen vertically, or could you have a big app open on 2/3rds of the screen, and say the right side split into top and bottom with two small aps as that is the kind of stuff I generally have open all the time.