Solved Let's stop moaning

[Fredledingue]

Windows 7 will be supported until 2020.

I don't care about how long MS will support W7 if in 3 years you will be practicaly forced to install Metro OS to connect to the world, social medias, news, video, e-mail whatever. I hope that won't happen thought. Poeple are not crazy.

The desktop market is no longer the only platform that Microsoft have to support, the Windows 8 Metro idea is an understandable route for them to go.

No. Total, stubborn, narrow-minded, obssessed opposition to modify three lines of codes to make Metro Start Screen optionable is NOT by any stretch of the imagination understandable. Sorry.

business is where Microsoft have to maintain their market dominance

Just to counter the very bad press and avoid severe backlash should be a reason to listen to customer critics of W8 (and do the above). Your reasoning makes no sens, Barman.

who knows perhaps Metro will become as much of an institution as the start menu

I'll bet you money it won't survive the winter 2012 (I mean on normal computers).