You can still get away with jeans, and the occasional t-shirt, but most days a decent (un-tucked) button up and decent shoes should be a standard. It really depends on the company culture.

Also, won't consumers get confused with the two different versions that look nearly the same but do not run compatible software? Really think they should have taken the lesson from Apple, if you want to get into tablet release a tablet OS and stop trying to recycle Windows, it hasn't worked out tremendously well in the past and it's not likely to work out that well in the future.

"With Windows 1.0, we needed the mouse to complete the experience," said Ballmer. "We wanted to give Windows 8 its own hardware innovation. Something new, different, a whole new family of computing devices from Microsoft." This kind of confirms to me my initial impressions of Windows 8, like Windows 1.0 the experience was incomplete without a mouse, Windows 8 is lacking without a touch screen. So why, oh why are they pushing the Metro interface into the server market as well? Does anyone here managing an IT department see a time when this is the predominate desktop environment in their shop, much less in the data center?

Not a bad idea

Recently I have seen all these reoccurring stories about how coffee prevents a slew of different forms of cancer, specifically prostate and colon, so I have taken to giving myself hot coffee enemas (3 cups per the articles recommendations) every morning. So now based on this speculative and partial study I am concerned if this is enough, should I continue on my current path or start a coffee IV drip instead?

While I agree changing the passwords is the first step in deployment, but (as to your example) why would you install your security devices on the same network as the rest of the building? A little network isolation goes a long way, restrict access to that network to your security personnel. Running an entire hospital on a flat network topology would seem to me to be fairly retarded on the part of whoever is engineering your deployments.