"Windows 8 Survey: Half Who Have Tried the OS Wouldn't Recommend It"

Honestly it took me about a week to get use to it, now that I'm use to it I can't go back to 7.

You can't get use to it after a few minutes of use. It takes closer to a week, after that the advantages are more obvious and the Metro screen becomes your friend.

It would only take a couple of classic desktop option buttons to appease the masses on the UI.

There are too many improvements to the desktop environment to list here over Windows 7.
I must be in the half that recommends it. :)

I think its headed for epic failure.

Given the amount of times I've seen seasoned windows users say they had to google to find how to shut it down I really hope that it reacts well to having the power pulled because that's what most of the public will end up doing.

I could see using it on a tablet. But on a PC, no way. I don't mind change, but a completely radical transformation like this is a little too much.
The only out in this is if there are completely different styles based on device. Not likely, but that kind of flexibility would help immensely.

Apple must be rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of hordes of disgruntled ex-Windows users migrating to the iMac and OS X Lion.

I really wish I had a tablet to test run this on. Its a PITA to run on a desktop, or laptop even. For me it is anyway, and I'm not really interested in spending weeks learning to get around with a keyboard and mouse. There was a definite WOW factor when I first tried Windows 7, I'm not getting that with Windows 8 at all.

I expressed at an earlier date that no-one will buy it! Windows 8 is a disaster waiting to happen.
1st Windows 7 is that good.
2nd No-one will fork out for a touch screen as well as buying an upgrade disc.
3rd It looks awful!
4th It looks like it has some real problems to overcome.
5ive Until everyone already has a touch screen there is no point in bringing out a touch screen OS.

If I was MS I would not put it out on sale as it won't bring back the cost of putting it on sale....
Well that's my penny's worth!

BTW because no-one is able to pirate download anymore, because of this not many will want to purchase a new computer let alone buy Windows 8.