>As always, good advice from Hank. But this speaks directly to the point : the most compelling reason to use Windows 8 is a retooled kernal and better performance. Metro is a failure and shows that they can take some really good technology and be clueless about how to market it or make a case for its adoption. Whoever told them people wanted their desktop to look like their phone was probably an agent provocateur from Apple or Google :-)
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>And it is not a motivation for people to go out and buy a new PC to get Win 8 or even pony up $100 to install Win 8 so they can make it work like Win 7.
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All true - but as W8 can be made to look like W7 pointing to MS as the reason for slumping PC sales IMO is wrong.
PC is not the information at your fingertips device any more ;-)
As I wrote to Mike, they will have to offer finger-usability for remote operation via iPad soon.