We have been evaluating Win8 CP for about a month now and are thoroughly unimpressed. The Metro interface looks snazzy, but it is a pain to work through with a mouse and keyboard and switching programs to "apps" is really just pissing off our test users. The Metro cannot be disabled anymore, you are forced to start to it and the start menu is gone preventing easy access to programs and functions (the Windows key just re-launches Metro and drops you out of what you were doing). After spending almost 20 years conditioning people to use a start menu, now we have to get a 3rd party app for that? Even if it is free for home users, there is always a business-use license. For 300+ users in our company, that is going to get expensive in a hurry. Metro is very simply a design and layout for tablets and touchscreen devices, NOT desktop systems. It is clunky and uncoordinated for use with a keyboard and mouse in addition to *HIDING BASIC FUNCTIONS* such as shutdown and reboot (who's brilliant idea was that?).
In short, we will *NOT* be upgrading to Windows 8 and will be hoping that Mr. Sinofsky and his designers either fix these obvious errors or get replaced with people who understand how businesses and users want to use their machines for Win9. Either that, or we will be looking at a Linux distro.