After spending a few weeks using the Windows 8 Release Preview (on a mouse and keyboard PC), I came to the same conclusions as this article. Metro is fine for touch devices, and Windows 7 is fine, if not great for desktop PCs, but the combination of the two simply doesn't work for me. I would be much more excited about Windows 8 if I had the option to turn Metro off completely and just go back to the Windows 7 UX when I'm running on a desktop or laptop. I'm also not a fan of the "ribbonizing" of applications that, in my opinion, never needed it, and don't benefit from the change (e.g. Windows Explorer). Microsoft can point out all the research and design goodness they want about the ribbon and Metro, but ultimately, the Windows 8 experience feels very clumsy and disjointed to me, almost bad enough for me to want to skip this version.<p>The final straw was the "Metro overhaul" that they did for Visual Studio 2012. I'm baffled by the decisions to remove all color from the application and turn it into a big, gray, amorphous blob.