>Really, Ken? This is your arguement? Win8 is essentially in Alpha and has been available to developers for less than two weeks. What were you expecting?
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>> I have yet to see one Metro based app on Windows 8 that has any usefulness at all,

You're missing my point. The limits of Metro are such that Metro apps are not near as useful as rich desktop apps on Windows desktop. Obviously Windows 8 has been available for Microsoft to build prototypes for many months.

And yes, I fully expect a company to show something useful when they show something new, especially when they expect and promote others to adopt it.

To me, Metro apps are subsets of rich desktop apps, a kind of hybrid between desktop and web apps. Metro apps will work well with a touch screen, even though over 99% of people that use Windows computers use a keyboard rather than touch screen. And people often use a tablet or touch device different than how they use a PC or Mac.