Yeah.. wanting something better citing specific examples, what a nerve. If you ask me people should quit bitching and move on from this whole "improvement" nonsense.

If you don't like it don't use it. (But you will, of course, eventually. And once you've accepted the change you'll like it. As always.)

I like the new UI; one of the big complaints about it is that it's just a start menu that you need to get through to see the standard desktop. That'll change as more apps start to use the new UI, like VLC. I think it's great that an established OSS project is going for cutting edge new platforms under its own steam instead of sitting around and waiting for a new enthusiast to do it (and probably get a bashing from the main dev group for doing so).

For media consumption devices yes; they mean a marketplace in which theft is harder, so software is cheaper and there's more experimentation with DLC, and it makes malware much harder to propogate, no devices which can't afford background processes or anti-virus.

For media creation devices it's a nice option to have at least.

Also I've written apps for my Windows Phone; they're easy to write, and they're pretty specific to things I want (graphing my phone data usage, implementing my password system). They didn't get accepted into the marketplace because I didn't meet a couple of requirements (e.g. pressing Back doesn't take you out of the app from the welcome screen; a reasonable complaint), and since I'm not desperate to get onto the marketplace I haven't yet bothered to fix them up.
I can run my software, the marketplace loses out on some relatively unpolished/personal software, I don't get any unpolished/personal software on the marketplace; it's a tradeoff I can live with.

To be honest more often than not poor code will just be about getting something out there with the minimum work, rather than because of deadlines. The code is usually boring, and/or it's already poor, so few will come along and sort it out to make things easier down the line (especially when even the best rewrites are usually more risky than a minor hack to a hacked up system, in the short term).

It's not about increasing the power of new bombs, it's about increasing their reliability / taking care of old bombs without needing to do nuclear tests.

It's just a payment service.. I've used it 3 times in the last two weeks, dozens of times over the last year.

Not in either of the places I work..

Hah.. speak for yourself.

Do you really think that companies are requiring people with high education for no reason, and they could just as easily get anyone in at far lower prices to do the high skilled jobs?

[Citation needed]

Pfft.. 2013 is the year when Windows RT/8 on Surface will force Linux to retreat out of tablets/smartphones and back onto Chinese "smart-fridge" interfaces and escalator firmware where it belongs.

Disclaimer: I am a Red Hat Certified consultant with 20 years UNIX experience looking on in terror as Microsoft renders my life obsolete.

Speaking your commands is definitely the way of the future, but I think they also need to make the window manager 3D if they want to stay ahead of the game.

It's funny because he's dead.. *g*

People tend to say the same thing about any shift in UI.

Maybe quit hacking the registry and disabling necessary services?