[citation][nom]willard[/nom]Jesus, you're desperate to prove there will be no brand recognition between tablet and desktop environments, aren't you?If you've actually used Windows 8, then you'd know that AFTER the computer unlocks, you are presented with the metro interface. You cannot disable it. You cannot prevent it from showing up. If you want the old desktop, you have to launch it FROM the Metro interface first. Nothing to do at all with the unlock process, but everything to do with how Windows 8 operates at a basic level. Metro is there, and you're going to see it. A lot.You may just launch the desktop every time you sit down (I did exactly that when I was using the developer preview last year), but like I said, your needs and desires aren't universal. You're obviously pretty hostile to Metro, and I get that. I've seen the same resistance (and put up a fair bit myself) among Windows power users. But most people really don't care.Most people will just do what's simplest, and that's not clicking the desktop icon, then clicking the start button, then programs, then find what they want in a list. Instead, they'll just click the icon from the Metro interface to begin with. Clever ones might even realize you can just start typing to filter what's shown and get to what they want faster.You seem to have decided that nobody will ever use Metro, and thus nobody would ever recognize it. I'm sorry, but Metro is how Microsoft sees the future of Windows, and they're going to ram it down your throat whether you want it or not.[/citation]
I've used the Dev preview, and frankly, the start screen is just like a glorified start menu. It works for that pretty well, but I don't plan on spending a terribly long time before clicking or tapping on some App I want to use. It is important, but not a central feature of the UX.