Quote Originally Posted by JuggaloBrotha View Post
...brings up the Metro UI, which is useless to me on my desktops and laptops... no touch screens.
My intent was not to try to counter complaints in this thread, but I did want to comment on the above statement as it is pretty strong.

It is interesting that you see Metro as useless without touch. Have you tried using your mouse? I have found that as I learn the mouse controls to the Metro interface, it has become much less "useless" and at times can be preferred over the desktop for some tasks.

I think the one of the biggest issues with Metro is actually a little thing -- there are no indicators as to how to use the mouse to do things. There is nothing indicating that there are things you can do on the left, right and other locations of the screen. Once you learn the secret handshakes, err mouse controls, I believe the level of uselessness will decrease.....

Brad!
(I use Win 8 on a notebook without touch)