Microsoft Bob, version 8

[ImaNihilist]

The OS itself isn't such a big deal. We no longer depend on the OS, or the OS vendor, to provide tools.

The success or failure of Windows 8 relies in the developer tools, and if they can win back developers. Microsoft used to make a lot of the software that worked with the OS. Internet Explorer, FrontPage, Outlook, Encarta, the rest of Office, Windows Media Player, etc.. None of that matters any more. MS Office is the only one that matters at all, even then not so much. DirectX is the only piece of software which can't be decoupled from Windows these days.

Don't know what people's problem is with Metro. It's different, but better in a world were we care more about apps than a desktop—which is the world we live in whether you like it or not. To think otherwise is just showing your age, like those who came before you complaining that the GUI itself was just for idiots who couldn't memorize a few commands.

I will gladly use Windows 8 if developers actually make software worth using.