>>My argument is that this isn't really geared to corporate level environments. Looks nice on a PC at home, and on my Windows phone, but as a work machine?? Not so much.
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>...and that might very well be a valid argument too - and if it's true it's another huge blunder on Micrsoft's part. Their whole market advantage is that businesses don't want apple they want pc's. But what makes these any less acceptable at the corporate level than any other laptop?

Metro. Plain and simple.

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>>>I don't think the average user needs to upgrade. Just because it's newer, doesn't mean it adds value for the AVERAGE user. For power users, I think it's a big improvement. (Faster load times, less memory/cpu consumption, connects to wireless faster, etc). However, Microsoft has really made it easy to upgrade.
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>>>Even big corporations don't typically upgrade machines. When I was at 3M, we got a new OS when we got a new PC, which was every three years. There was no move to upgrade existing machines.
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>>>>This isn't really a good judge of Win 8 because the Gov will force people to use it. But ask those same users if they'll upgrade their home PC's to it.