The end is near...

Microsoft couldn't be doing a worst job with the windows UI.

So why wouldn't Microsoft have a huge blog. They have them everywhere and why not with billions invested. It's the greatest thing to ever come around but not for me. Could be however the tide may turn as there are so many people now that only know how to use a i-phone. This will be right up their alley. Nothing will however convince me this is for a phone or tablet not a computer. But then again I am from an older generation and no longer need the other things for work as home is the only place I now need something which is a computer for enjoyment and fun.

BUT, nobody argued that it is a bad UI for tablets and phones. People are saying that it is stupid to foist it on laptops and desktops which have a mouse and keyboard!

How is "we are validated that its good for tablets and phones" a response to that?

Read the whole thing.  Not sure why they've become so 'anti-chrome' (lowercase c) - they kept glass in the Taskbar but prohibit it in frames.

Whatever their justification, it's all about the Microsoft Store.

Which will fail because Metro 8 will fail (I am not calling this windows if it doesn't have actual windows)

Unfortunately, they have apparently lost their chance to have their cake and eat it too.

While Windows 8 is fine, nay competitive finally, on tablets and phones with touch, it's completely half-baked when it comes to desktop users.  

From home to business users--the 95% market share MS has built up on the desktop--the invisible control gadgets, removal of the smart button, lack of close gadgets, etc. is going to confuse the hell out of the less techno-literate.

And MS didn't need to do this.  If the necessary GUI options were provided and made the default for upgraders and/or non touch users (re: EVERYONE with a desktop computer for the past 30 years), home and business users would have had ONE thing to adapt to, Metro.  There would have been bitching, of course, but the Start Menu->Start Screen is easy to grok if everything else works similarly.

Businesses will "skip" Windows 8 entirely and home users will switch to Apple out of their frustration--as Apple will be the only major commercial vendor providing consumers a viable and recognizable "windows" experience.

How ironic.

Again, all I will say is YUK!

Heh, heh. 

As I read the entire article, somewhere close to the last couple of paragraphs I started getting this epiphany....you know, that feeling that something very major is about to change. It suddenly became crystal clear to me that skinning as we know it will soon become a thing of the past....something no longer relevant in this new high-tech ,fast paced society we are now beginning to experience. People will no longer be concerned about or interested in having beautifully designed icons or window borders etc ,since they will become obsolete and un-necessary in this new high-tech ,fast paced world we are now living in. I sense that our time of relevency is quickly growing short fellow skinners, appreciate and embrace this time we still have left as we will soon be going the way of the dinosaurs I fear. Sad really....

I REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY hope Stardock has something up their sleeve that will let us keep customization alive and well.

Metro.. literally looks like dog shit from an albino dog.

Bill Gates has finally.. lost his mind apparently.

Second that. I didn't get into skinning only to have Microstuff screw things up. I don't like Macs so I have an alternative I'm playing with. Win7 is my default OS. The other a standby.

AGREED   LOL

 It looks like something that fell out of a tall cow's ass on a hot day.

Not Bill Gates. Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows division since July 2009.

These days everybody thinks they are some kind of Steve Jobs. Not to worry though... the higher they go, the harder they fall.

"Building the Windows 8 UI"

Soon, Stardock will be remodeling the Windows 8 UI.