Metro is a controlled software ecosystem. I can't, from my own PC without an Internet connection, write and install a Metro app. It has to come from the network (except on Win8 Professional and Enterprise, where it can be side-loaded through a complex process). For all average users, it means those apps are downloaded from Microsoft, which means Microsoft knows what Metro apps you have on your machine.

Microsoft is herding people intro controlled pastures. .NET and cloud computing is about controlling data and business. Win8 is about controlling information related to users, what accounts they have, who they communicate with, what apps they like to run, everything.

Microsoft is about control. So are all big corporations.


>So why should a person have to change their habits just to get some daily work done. Whey didn't Microsoft just include a switch that would allow Win 8 to work the way Windows 7/XP worked, or the new way for people who like their computers to look like their Windows phone (which had also already been rejected by the market)? They could have done this.
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>>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.
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>>>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.