Pretty much everyone that I've heard complain about Win8 has not used for a significant period of time. They're either reading the bad stuff people are saying or they've played with it for five minutes at BestBuy.

>You did suggest that complaints about W8 are because people are creatures of habit. Others who believe their objection is because the interface makes little sense on a desktop, might not enjoy that characterization. Ditto the ribbon: I use Libra Office for its UI even though MSOffice came with my machine.
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>As they say in science: the animal is always right. Scientists can come up with the most amazing theories but if the test animal doesn't comply, the theory is wrong. Not the animal, the theory.
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>IMHO an OS can't always be expected to excite, but at a minimum it needs to satisfy and make sense. When it's gotten right, people queue for a copy. When it's wrong, people refuse to use it and the vendor is forced to backtrack. Seems to me the vendor got it wrong with W8 contrary to the good news some tried to spread, just as they did with Vista. Blaming the customer reminds me of the days when VFP MVPs tried to blame the community for what MS did to VFP. Maybe we caused L2S and Silverlight as well and I reckon it's that troublemaker Kuhn responsible for Windows Blue.