Pause for thought... (Score 1)

I would hope that as we are still seeing beta code that Microsoft will mop this all up in the next month... Although a little drastic, after trying Windows 8.1 I dusted off my Windows 7 install disk and rolled my laptop back to the OS that came with it... My goodness it was a refreshing change, no longer do I experience the jarring sensation of being yanked from my desktop to the start screen, I can always see what applications are running, I can have several things on screen at once. Yes, I miss staring endlessly at my ever changing live tiles, I miss using a pin code to log in, and I miss the plethora of pre-installed Microsoft applications... Or do I? Is Windows 8 just one big gimmick? It's a real shame that Microsoft have pulled off their leap to a new interface so poorly, with a bit more imagination Windows 8 may have been the radical idea that revolutionised the the flagging PC industry... Perhaps if they had embedded the "Start Screen" within the start menu for desktop users? After I got Windows 8 I went and got a Windows phone expecting my two devices to be symbiotically entwined, but they weren't, it became a whole pile of faff getting my email accounts on both devices, this should have been seamless! I ditched the Windows phone and got an iPhone... I'm in the market for a new laptop, and I'm being pulled towards a Macbook, I installed a "Hooky" copy of OSX in a virtual machine and instantly found it to be more like Windows than Windows 8. It also did everything Microsoft promised the Windows 8 would do, effortlessly syncing with my Apple ID calendar, email, address book... I'd be interested to see how many people are being steered away from Windows machines as a result of Windows 8.