>You get Metro whether you like it or not. you can open desktop mode from the metro interface. Still no start menu (Microsoft forces you to use Metro as the menu - they even blocked the hacks people were using to simulate a start menu in the release preview).
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>I've been using Win 8 RTM since it was released on MSDN last month. If it had a start menu I'd recommend it.
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>It doesn't, and I don't.
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>When you install software from other companies they generally try to make it accessible from the start menu. Not with Win 8.
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>I tried not to think of it an another Vista (Microsoft didn't care if you liked it - they expected you to buy it anyway), but I now call it Vista II.
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>Apple gets away with that because of their user base. Microsoft likely won't.
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>OTOH, I think it will work great for a single tasking OS for phones and tablets.

That is exactly my point. I have been wondering if that one is a skip one to consider so was the case as the one you mentioned. We have seen that at two occasions before. So, this is what I have been thinking about to consider. At this point, I have about half of the people considering it and the other half not.