Originally Posted by
Elkvis
You responded from a developer's perspective, and I understand why, but I was speaking from a user's perspective, although I'll admit I wasn't clear about that.
Users are familiar with the standard desktop, and I see the move to metro as microsoft's attempt to make every desktop PC into a tablet, because "tablets are the future of computing," or whatever nonsense is the story of the day. I think that most long-time windows users will resist metro, regardless of the "improvement" that it represents, because in their eyes, it will really simply be an unnecessary change from the systems with which they are already familiar. people resisted the taskbar/desktop concept when windows 95 was released, but it actually turned out to be a very good change. I don't know anyone who would want to go back to the program manager of windows 3.1/NT 3.51, having used the windows 95 or newer desktop.