Oh wonderful news. The turd has been polished.
I had hopes that the return of the traditional "Start Menu" and the boot to desktop would give me some inspiration, some small desire, to at least give Windows 8 another look. But after seeing screenshots of the traditional "Start Menu" in the Windows 8.1 preview I honestly don't have much of a desire.
This is a revelation to myself. Something deeper is wrong with Windows 8 other than the traditional "Start Menu" being gone. I think I could live without a Start Menu. It's the whole watered down UI that just kills any desire to use this operating system. The square tiles everywhere make me wanna puke. They should have named Windows 8 "The Color Purple" but I think that's already been used as a movie title and Whoopie Goldberg might get upset about that.
I hate to say it but it seems that no matter what features Windows 8 might gain in the future I can't deal with the pre-school, square tile, color purple, touch-centric user interface. Microsoft could add native DVD-support back into Windows 8.2 and I still couldn't stomach the UI. It has a cheap look to it.
Okay, so it looks like Windows 7 Ultimate is my last Windows operating system. But being eternally optimistic I will certainly be watching the fate of the Windows operating system. Maybe Microsoft will realize what a complete and total failure the Windows 8 UI is on desktops if we just give them more time. It seems they have realized they aren't too big too fail. No thanks to all the brown nosers who purchased this turd on day 1.