Article: Microsoft Surface shows Apple could be wrong

[duke0102]

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.

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.

[mjmacky]

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.