Now we can spread Metro across multiple screens with ease. Great improvement........MetroUgly x2. There are other ways to handle multiple monitors without abandoning a perfectly fine, highly functional OS. (Win7) Buy Windows8 for it's wallpaper handling abilities? I don't think so.

I'm a dually, but I think I'll stay with 7 a while longer.  

Just my personal opinion but I really don't think this makes up for what appears, for all practical purposes, to be is a very poor example of a new OS.  Sorry. 

This is something that should have been natively implemented in Windows *a long time ago*. Ultramon has been doing this for ages, even if by using the trick of 'stitching' different wallpapers in memory.

Windows 8 seems to have some nice new features. Unfortunately Metro, and especially Microsoft's stubbornness in forcing users into it and not allowing them to turn it off and revert to the classic Windows UI, is going to ensure Windows 8 is DOA.

Microsoft needs to be taught a lesson, understand that this is the wrong direction to go. The only way we, as consumers, can do that is by keeping our wallets shut.

Agreed Jorge.

Whoopee... not impressed at all.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/18/creating-the-windows-8-user-experience.aspx

If you only want to “live in the desktop,” if you never plan on using a PC with touch or using any apps from the Windows Store whatsoever, Windows 8 still has a lot to offer. The Windows 7 desktop experience has been brought forward and significantly improved, with additions such as the new Task Manager, new Explorer and file copy UI, Hyper-V on the client, multi-monitor taskbar and wallpaper, etc. And all in a package that uses fewer system resources than Windows 7. The new Start screen is simply a continuation of the Windows 7 trend of unifying disparate elements of the user interface—starting, launching, switching, and notifications.

It is really your choice. You can use only desktop apps if you want. You can use only new apps and never leave them if you want (in which case all of the desktop code is not even loaded.) Or, you can choose to mix and match apps that run in both environments. We think in a short time everyone will mix and match, simply because there is so much creative development energy being put into the new scenarios made possible by new Windows 8 apps. 

Problem is those 'apps' are el cheapo knock offs of mobile apps and are very hard to use due to the limitations Metro imposes on the layout.

You can get about half the information on screen as without them.

We'll have to wait for Windows 9 i guess when the public has been used as a beta test platform again like with vista.

I'll give it a miss. Btw, Displayfusion also rocks and is fully Windowblinds compatible.

And now that they've gutted Aero glass out of the desktop interface, I have even LESS interest in working with Windows 8, until Stardock Windowblinds can put it back in.  

Yeah, Microsoft justifies the design change by calling the older Aero UI "dated and cheesy."

How blind/stupid can you be?! They're insulting every Windows user who updated from XP to 7 in part because of the cool glass UI.

You can see Microsoft's idea of a 'non-cheesy' UI HERE. Personally I think cheesy is their 'brand new design'. Never seen so much FAIL put together.

It looks to me that Microsoft have just given Stardock a massive shot in the arm [with the new desktop UI theme].

This may look bad but the solution is only an install away.

I agree.  1985 wants their Fisher-Price colored blocks back...

I'm with all the win 8 Haters   I hate it..  ok dislike'rs of 8 I still hate it, pass Dis-like

Microsoft has this guy who gets up in the morning and puts his pants on just like you or me. He's a wannabe that wants to get a following and wants to be lauded as a "Guru" among his peers. He wants everyone to hang on his every word....something like a "Steve Jobs". In order for his plan to work, he must convince people that his ideas are the new "cool". Since he is in a position of authority he feels he has the power to dictate what is "cool". So he thinks to himself.......hmmm..." I'll just tell people that "Aero" is "backward and cheesy" and so are they if they don't move on to my idea of "cool" in Windows 8. So all the sheep follow this "wannabe" instead of thinking for themselves and allow a fool to lead a bigger group of fools down his path of fantasy for the sole purpose of self-glorification. ---      I have always had a kind of 6th sense about people , and my gutt feeling is that this is exactly how it went down.