This about sums it up for me:

"It doesn't do a thing to address the fact that Windows isn't a single

OS. It's two of them, mobile and desktop, fused together unnaturally

like a Frankenstein's monster."

And it's sad, because from what I've seen of 8.1, especially on the

eldest kid's laptop, it is an improvement over 7 in a lot of ways.

Starts up like a rocket for one. If you could just boot it straight into

a desktop/Start menu that is like Windows 7, or to the Metro UI on a

tablet, and never the twain meet, it would be great. Or if it were easy

to implement an alternative shell, like the *nix world, but that would

leave them open to the sort of Gnome vs KDE vs whatever infighting that

plagues that platform.

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