Article: Microsoft Surface shows Apple could be wrong

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Originally Posted by your_creator

I think its so funny that there are a lot of followers who will listen to the mass opinion that Microsoft OS is somehow a failure and will always fail. In my opinion they have turned their image around staring with windows7 and Windows 8 will be a new era. Yet I know fanboys who will be bias and will deprive themselves from experiencing Surface and Windows 8.

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I've used most of the Windows OSs and I personally don't think they've made a terrible one, I even like Vista. My ONLY issue is the Metro UI, it looks like it's designed for touch screens and that screws over the normal users. If that became optional I would upgrade but I'll wait to see if there are any hacks/patches to get rid of it in the mean time.

I'm just upset that MS is trying to force users to adopt Metro UI by removing all of their legacy code that could be used to re-enable the Start Menu. If you want it back, you have to rely on 3rd party tools to recreate it. Stardock developed Start8, and I'm a big fan of their Fences product, but I use it as an extra, I don't want 3rd party to become essential for basic operating behavior of an OS when the OS developer already had it pretty right the first time around. I'm such a big fan of it that I wouldn't use any other Linux desktop besides KDE.