Also the Win 8 experience is just too jarring for experienced users, and lets face it, who wants to waste time and effort re-learning to do the same thing a different way.
Well said. It's true anytime an industry, or a company makes a 'business decision' without being tuned to their users. The same scenario is playing out with Gnome. It has been playing out for 40 years with US car companies.
What's behind Microsoft's fall from dominance? Their visionary took a hike.
Bill is often vilified (even caught a pie the face to great applause). Imagine the industry if Steve Jobs had managed to have Bill's uninterrupted success and dominance. I wonder if the dominant OS would have been more Orwellian.