>Improving poor taste in upper leadership is almost as difficult as treating severe paranoia: people who don’t value taste and design will rarely recognize these shortcomings or seek to improve them. With very few exceptions, companies that put out tasteless, poorly designed products will usually never change course.
Taste is a subjective thing. In my eyes, Metro is more well designed than iOS. Maybe Steve Ballmer has poor taste, but he's not the one designing WindowsPhone.