Although I am not using Win 8 on a daily basis anymore than I have to (tech support call or whatever), at least with the $5 start button I can at least use it (and get the benefit of stabliity and underlying improvements if in fact there is really any) without being forced to use something that I find completly silly looking and foolish on a desktop or laptop. I am probably going to pay the $5 to buy this start button for the few clients I have that were forced to use Windows 8 (because of a new purchase of hardware). I feel confident they will appreciate this as they really are annoyed at Windows 8.

>Well said, Mel. I will take Craig at his word that there are some nice improvements in Win8. But the antipathy toward Metro is so widespread it has crippled adoption of the new version. I bet most of the Win8 "sales" are copies that come preloaded on new PCs, not upgrades. A switch such as you describe might change that.
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>>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.