[Scott R]

Also a 20+ year IT veteran, this is possibly the worst OS ever developed. I'm certain that OS2 is probably more functional today than Windows 8 will be by next year.

They give us a traditional "desktop" that you can access from "Metro" however it has everything that the Windows 7 desktop has except.... THE START BUTTON! They left off the most important item.

So now you need to learn to love your "windows" key on your keyboard and hope to heck that your app is listed on the "metro" home page, otherwise you're going fishing. I'm constantly going back and forth between "metro" and what we used to call the "desktop."

So lets say you do use "metro" as your primary interface, well it's not very intuitive either, and if you click something that you can't open by default it sends you to a "store" to get that app. There are not enough explicatives in the English language to convey my frustration with that.

For my last rant I'll just say that the damn thing wouldn't shut down by itself. Ok, so my motherboard is not from this year so I suppose it's my fault. However the remedy for this requires that you disable "hybrid boot" which is one of the key new features of Windows 8.

Microsoft has lost all hope.