I really don't understand all the moaning. Especially from people that actually tried Windows 8. There's really not much to learn here. The Metro UI is just one screen on top of it all with widget styled apps you can customize. It wont take a novice more than a day to learn the new stuff and more than 10 minutes for someone moderately experienced. With one click you are back on the Desktop the same as before where you can proceed to work as usual. Removal of the Start Menu is really not an issue and who needs it anyway when you can launch an app by searching for it. Even on Windows 7 I rarely navigated through all the folders and looked to find what I need, when you can type a few characters and it finds the application for you. And if you miss it that much there are add ons to bring it back. Almost every article I ran across had the same "boo hoo, no Start Menu" context. It's not like they replaced rectangular windows with tetrahedrons that you have to rotate to see the content. There's really not that much revolutionary here. Maybe it Microsoft's fault for presenting it that way.