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Originally Posted by HC_Chief
I have an RT and love it...but I only use it for email, intarwebs, and Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote). For these purposes, it absolutely excels.
As someone indicated earlier, the apps are sorely lacking on the W8 platform. iOS and Android are dominant in the mobile app space right now. It will change; I expect M$ to make significant strides in that area, but it will take time.
Regarding W8 design flaws, those are well documented; the guy responsible (Steven Sinofsky, aka Lord Doucheknuckle) was canned/errrr "resigned", acknowledging his mistakes as the door hit him in the ass....errr, amicably parted company.
The Metro interface is a problem for non-touch devices. For tablets, it is simple and intuitive. On a desktop/laptop w/o a touch screen, it is NOT AT ALL intuitive and a real PITA to figure out. The total lack of visual cues is inexplicable.
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Nice of him to fall on his sword and all but you dont just get to wing it on a redesign of the most used software ever without a shitload of people who could wipe their greasy asses with $100 bills and not give it a second thought.
Luckily the UI flaws that may seem major because of their level of annoyance are simple in terms of being easily corrected. But, whether they can be creative enough to introduce these new features in a manner that it actually means an evolution to the desktop environment is another question. Hell, 8.1 test build already slapped back on the taskbar and windows logo launcher - but thats more like a temporary stopgap because theyve yet to achieve mixing metro and the traditional desktop- it totally feels like they are competing homescreens.