It's probably a good thing that we can all see this matter differently. The guys at Inforworld seem to want a very clear distinction between how a Desktop PC works and how "other devices" work, even imagining a hybrid operating system UI for the devices that today are not exactly desktops and are not exactly tablets.
This idea shows up on /. A few days after we saw multiple hybrid products and prototypes at Computex, many of them using Windows 8 on machines with varied configurations. Would the people at Infoworld adjust their OS everytime someone comes up with a valid hardware prototype? Or would they react to wherever the OEMs are doing and adjust Windows whenever some new OEM design becomes successful enough? In either case, they are not acknowledging that Microsoft has and wants to have a say in how their product is used.

It seems the people at Infoworld gathered the common gripes and made a mock-up of how things could stay the same as much as possible, disregarding any aspirations that MS may have to develop their products towards what will sell in the future.
By extending the idea of Personal Computer to include smartphones and tablets, within 10 years we will be looking at a PC market with a majority of devices without any MS product, unless Microsoft seriously increases sales of Windows Phone and Surface. It looks like people at Infoworld haven't noticed that these products do not have and do not need to show any familiarity with the old desktop and icons UI.

Windows blue is looking like a a gradual change to what feedback MS got from Windows 8, without detracting from those objectives of helping them get a stronger position on the tablet/mobile market. This Windows red mock-up would be 10 steps backwards on that route, leaving Windows in an shrinking island of "desktop" users, without a clear route for linking them with other devices, which is possibly the best thing about Windows 8.0

I migrate several times a day. On the phone there's Windows 7.5, on the PCs there's Windows 7 at work, while at home it's Windows 8 and Android. I've nearly given up on having Ubuntu working on the media centre (x86) PC, so that one will be shelved and replaced with a silent and relatively smart Android box.

perhaps they had support from Czechoslovakia...

My Windows 8 store shows both Metro and Desktop apps, the latter have a different hue on their little tiles. Possibly a way to show a bigger number when someone compares "how many apps in your store?".

erm... is Jar Jar *that* different from C3PO?

Maybe that Owncloud thing will work well to handle the storage and access. Anyone knows if its search function is any good?

IMHO the product fills a gap in the market precisely because you can't just get a suitable SSD for "not much more cash". I looked at ebuyer just now and found the Seagate 750GB Momentus XT SSD cost £83, with a 750GB 7200rpm drive aided by 8GB NAND. For some it will be a more reasonable compromise than to lose the optical drive and pay the same £80 for a 120GB SSD. (or to pay £15 for the SSD-5.25 caddy and leave £65 for a smaller SSD)

well, not a *complete* jerk about it, I'd agree. google.com/ig gets 1 year notice, Google Reader gets 3 months "sunset". AGH.

At some point someone has to say that "I can't run this ship by consensus". Now that everyone and their dog have access to the internet it is very visible that whenever something changes, there are people who voice their disagreement with the new thing; and if there's no change, then people will vote with their feet and say that they will choose the most innovative product/company/project.

What is regrettable with all this is that whenever there's news from Ubuntu, there's no shortage of people saying that they moved away to Mint or whatever. If that is the case, why comment Ubuntu stories at all?

only one?

For other subjects, but mostly these of politics and religion, whenever someone suggests "those guys are just a small minority", I have to wonder: how do you know? have you counted them or is it wishful thinking?

RAF and USAF pilots just need to use cockney rhyming slang. enemies will die laughing and the war ends quickly.

so you honestly believe that the Metro UI, the app market and the other desktop->mobile OS changes from W7 to W8 will all be temporary and removed in W9? I'd suggest to anyone avoiding Metro to try the Skype and eBay apps in Windows 8 before deciding that W8 and "mobile-ification" is a dead end.

too bad their poll is not more like Slashdot... I'd go for Itchy and Scratchy.