It's not really a surprise, Windows 8 is poorly designed to begin with for a desktop experience. This is not anecdotal - the OS sales have been poor, the executive at Microsoft who spearheaded the design was fired, and so on.<p>What's more surprising is how slowly (and I would say, stubbornly) Microsoft is moving to correct it. It's like they don't want to admit that Desktop and Mobile should have distinct UIs since they are used in distinct ways.<p>Your market decides what it wants, something Microsoft adhered to for years. Now it seems Microsoft has it in their heads that the market will adjust to them, even though the data is (thus far) proving the exact opposite.<p>Actually, that's not just some recent thing. That's the oldest business axiom in existence. "Find what people want, and sell it to them", not "Invent something that people may or may not want and wait for them to buy it".