So what you're saying is you've never used it? It's combining the ideas of icons and widgets into a single thing, basically a small peek into the application and whether you even need to open it (If it's a social networking thing) or not. Instant update, no clicks, boom. It's not 'a desktop of big icon buttons". Only someone who hasn't tried it thinks it's "a desktop of big icon buttons".

Recently I wanted to go back to 2005. If I knew all it took was reading the comments of Slashdot's declining mobile section, it could have saved me a lot of time. I find it funny people commenting on reliability and security on a phone platform that isn't riddled with malware, viruses, and security holes, while people proclaim from the heights the crappy not-even-open source platform that has all of the above. BSOD? Not since 2005. Sorry, buck-o. MS has come leaps and bounds since they hit rock bottom with Vista over half a decade ago. Vista is workable, Win7 is fantastic, Win8 is still a mystery but the Metro UI is a great advance as far as touchscreen integration is concerned. The tile grid UI and resource-greedy widgets of yesteryear are hopefully going to die a swift death, but I assume the amount of hangers-on that I see in these comments will keep the past alive because of their general fear of the unknown. It's almost irony that the MS offerings in the cell phone market "just work", whereas the one chosen by the geek community requires all of the care, setup, and fixing that made them hate Windows in the first place. And then the world moved on without all of you, while you still live firmly in this echo chamber that has seen a 20% drop in web traffic over the past year. Judging by the outdated discussions going on here (Completely ignoring the medical advances that Kinect is promising, ignoring Surface and the fact there is nothing like it in the world, and ignoring the success and redemption Win7 has brought MS in the eyes of the general market), and judging the general hypocrisy (Down with Windows and its malware and crashes... but I use Android!) I can't imagine this will be met with "astroturfer" and "paid employee", because anyone that disagrees with Slashdots infinite pool of geriatrics is automatically paid to do so. Enjoy.