It wasn't really the UI that people hated in Vista, it was UAC.

I'm using Win8 every day and spend all my time working in desktop mode. I hardly ever see Metro.

Microsoft's reasoning is that you'll have one UI on phone, tablet, laptop, desktop. This means you're familiar with the UI so it's easy to switch between them.

I think you'll see a big increase in sales of touch screen on the desktop and laptop in order to fully use Metro.

>Does anyone think it doesn't suck on a desktop?
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>Why in the he77 Microsoft would try to make that a default for an OS that likely targets desktop users is absolutely beyond me.
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>The OS itself seems pretty good, but they've Vista'd the interface. I would have expected them to have learned not to throw a crappy interface at people just to be different. Obviously I was wrong.
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>Of course even the non-Metro desktop has changed fairly drastically (not Vista'd, but considerably different).
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>They should make Metro a non-default installation option - "Do you want a cutesy touch interface or are you using a real computer?"
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>Yeah - I've been playing with that and Visual Studio 11 all day.