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Have had the preview installed since it came out. Was dubious at first (to say the least) but the more I play with it (every week or two) the more I seriously dislike it as a desktop interface. It's positively maddening sometimes.
Try launching media player on it (no not by double clicking a media file, by just launching the player).
There is no list of installed programs anywhere. The metro UI has a few well chosen preplaced items but 90% of the preinstalled programs are not there and there is no actual Start Menu that shows them (That I have been able to find). The search box is gone and that was a truly great thing on windows 7. If I wanted media player and couldn't find it, typing it into the search box would give me a shortcut to launch it (on 7). I finally had to use explorer to search for the media player app find it then create a shortcut to the desktop for it... yeah that was SO much easier than the old start menu.
(Ok, maybe there is an easier way? But if there is and I could't find it, that's the most damning testimony for the new UI of all)
And what is with that IQ test to shut the machine down? First you need to click on an "icon" and "log off", wait for it to log off, "raise the shade" and then click on another icon and select "shut down". The more I do it the more I realise someone needs to be put into solitary for a month for coming up with that
So yeah, on desktop... a resonding "No thank you". BUT I would love to have windows 8 on a nice tablet sometime soon. Or as those star trek pictures show, as some sort of in wall/built in flat screen AIW computer on the wall for casual computing updates as I'm zipping through the house. (hopefully with fully working sleep mode of course)
[Edit] If there is any sense at MS, I'll be made to look like an idiot for this rant when the beta is released next month (crosses flippers) [/edit]