>>The guru class of Microsoft-related developers are on fire about Metro. They seem to think it is the first new paradigm in 10 years... And it has won at least one award from a designers' group.
The question to be asked, is whether these people are in touch with the decision-making community- which no longer means CFOs and corporate IT departments with big budgets and "you can have any color as long as it's black" authority, but Jack and Jacinda Public walking into the mall or into T-mobile wanting a Galaxy or iPad to run the same apps as their phones, for $100 with a data plan. The tablet model can never involve people lugging around multiple instances of these things.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
