[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]High-end computing tablets with desktop operating systems are not worth a higher premium than other tablets. In fact, a desktop OS has no business on a tablet, and a tablet UI has no place on a desktop. From the users' point of view, a user interface is the OS.Microsoft wants to push their entire Windows user base into their app walled garden, and they do not care how we'd prefer to use our computers. The only way to stop this is to not buy anything infected with Metro. Looking at Windows 8 and WP8 market share, the market is responding exactly in this way.[/citation]
The only walled garden is with Windows RT, not Windows 8 desktop, and that is because it runs on an ARM chip.
Microsoft has already said they will not make the x86 version be a walled garden and there is reason to believe them because it would be market suicide for Windows.
The main problem with Windows 8 isn't that it's a bad OS, it seems to be a very good OS with a bad UI. If they added back in the Start button, which it seems as if they will do, and make the desktop the default and allow people the option to go into Metro instead of vice versa the way it is now, Windows 8 would likely see sales skyrocket.