Comment Re:Is this only for tablets (Score 1) 343
Well sure. Sit someone down in front of XP with NO history with Windows and they'd experience the same thing. Or same with OS X.
The GA version of Windows 8 will include a quick training video, giving people the basics they need to know, how to find things, where things are, etc. It's like when MS introduced the "Ribbon" interface. Those plopped down in front of it with zero instruction HATED it. When I sat down some people and explained the basic philosophy, hows, and whys... they liked it.
Yes, there will be retraining necessary. But I don't think it's going to be "Huge". I think a lot of people who just sit down at Windows 8 and try to use it like it was Windows 7, though, under-estimate the importance of training and are just going to needlessly frustrate themselves.
There's a rather nice consistency across the board to where most things are and how they function. Still some annoying quirks, as always (it IS Windows, after all), but it's not bad, and it's not bad design.