Great validation of what I've been saying. Most people don't like it because it's "different" and they have to relearn things. People are creatures of habit and Win8 forces you to change some habits.

>A while back I set up a system with the pre-release version of Windows 8 for everyone at the office to try -- NOBODY tried it. Not a single person (aside from myself) was willing to give it a try -- EVERYONE seemed to HATE it for some reason (despite NOT even trying it). Admittedly I too had some doubts -- at least until I'd fiddled around with it about 10~15 minutes. Yes, there were some annoying times where I had trouble locating a few things -- but then I'm already used to "spelunking" (I'm often called to do whenever someone gets lost in a new UI). Once you figure out the underlying logic then it's not bad. (shrug) but then again, I might be unusual in that I'm used to "switching gears" than most and that I have general philosophy of trying to understand what I was doing rather than blindly following procedure.