I know this horse has been already beaten to death... but, I just got a laptop with Win8 this week and I have to say this, my goodness I am just awestruck that this Metro interface actually made it to the public in its current form. What the hell happened? Isn't Microsoft a company that conducts very basic UI tests before shipping a big product?

I like to think of myself as a fairly technical person, and yet I could not figure out how to do simple things like close windows, change windows, shut down, etc. for a good while.

My dad, a 68 year old guy, calls himself a geek computer person, his friends affectionately/comically refer him to as a "computer genius". He was trying out the Win8 laptop the other day... and I heard him say "Hm, I'm not as good with computers as I thought I was". That just really made me very sad. I'm just going to get a Win7 laptop for him now.