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Originally Posted by BWinmill
You can opt out. There are plenty of start menu add-ons.
Besides, I don't think the new UI is the problem. Discoverability is the problem. For example: there is no visual indication on how to return to the start screen from legacy or modern application. Fix that, and I'll bet that most people will stop grumbling about the loss of the start menu. Then again, those aren't the only problems with discoverability. The charms bar is used to access a lot of important stuff, but it is out of sight and out of mind until you activate it. Even the login screen is one of those head scratchers. It's pretty and all, but you wouldn't know what it was for until you jabbed at the keyboard or twiddled the mouse.
So no, I don't think the problem is that Microsoft tried to foist a new UI on its users. I think the problem is that Microsoft tried to foist a poorly designed UI on its users. Adding to the appeal of the poor design are the limitations. (It's a first generation product, of course it's going to be incomplete. Why did Microsoft thing it was time to make it the primary UI?) While it sounds like Windows 8.1 is going to solve some of that, it doesn't go far enough. In fact it's fixing less than independent developers managed to fix prior to the official release of Windows 8. Maybe Microsoft should look at why it's development model is so slow and unresponsive.
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Folks like Stardock deserve the money they'll make. I'd be willing to pay them, but I refuse to pay Microsoft for an OS that requires me to buy an add-on to restore the functionality that I want.
Microsoft is also drawing my ire in other areas. I loathe Xbox One. I don't like the push toward subscriptions for Office.
I don't play games on PC any more due to the restrictive DRM. So I'm seeing no need to stick with Windows for my next desktop.