Absolutely wrong, Win8 is NOT a tablet OS piggybacked on Win7, its Win7 piggybacked on a tablet OS. And therin lies the problem, desktop users are forced to interact with a non-desktop interface in order to get their work done.
That encapuslates the issue. The desktop is subserviant to the tablet interface. There is NO GOOD REASON for this, and anyone who says it doesn't break the desktop experience simply never got anything productive done before, orits been so long that anyone counted on them being productive, they've simply forgotten.
Multitasking is the premier feature, the reason for the "s" in Windows. I might have 12 different things open at times, not just to look busy, but to cut & paste info from one to the other, even between multiple sources and multiple desinations.
Can I "make it work" with Win8? Yes, with far more effort that Win7, Vista, XP, WinME, Win98, or Win95. To dismiss productive users as "unwilling to change" is just as bigotted as to call those who disagree with Obama's policies "racist".
There is nothing about Win8 that offers an improvement for desktop users. Trouble is, if Metro wasn't forced on us and the start orb/menu had remained, Win8 wouldn't be getting panned the way it is. The choices were removed as an act of arrogance.
Seriously guys/gals, if you aren't productive workers, please don't comment on the desktop aspects of computing. We're not talking about "cute dog and bird playing" videos, we're talking about having multiple applications open, exchanging information between them, and actually doing something that earns money for our employer and/or ourselves.
DAS