And they would ALL need to answer the question: "Do you use start menu or not?"
Obviously you don't know how the Customer Experience Program works,
if you accept to be part of it ...
Exactly! That's the whole point. You have totally ignored what I said. I know how Customer Experience works, but because it's set to "NO" by default, the vast majority of users aren't going to turn it on. So their "mouse click" votes are never registered!
This includes huge blocks of users such as office workers where probably 90% would vote yes, but don't because it's not turned on. So the sample is biased.
I worked in the Bureau of Census and Statistics. Ring them or any dept of stats at any university, and put the facts to them, and they will tell you exactly what I'm telling you. It's a non valid sampling method.
rich4421972 said:
No amount of rhetoric promoting Win8 in forums will change the reality of how the public will react. But if there are enough protests, it
might get Microsoft's attention. However, the main protest will come from consumers in the market place, and that will definitely get their attention! And the reaction will not be proactive, but rather by their omission in not using W8 in the business sector and many other sectors.
If you check around other forums you will observe a huge outcry against the dropping of the start menu. IMHO MS can ignore that at their own peril. No company is so big it can afford to ignore the preferences of it's clientelle. What they're doing is almost inviting another player to step up to the mark. And someone like Google have the resources to do just that; and have already tested the water with Android. Plus there are many others hovering around the fringes.
And since comnpetition is the life blood of a market based economy, that wouldn't be such a bad thing, with the main beneficiaries being the consumrer. MS have had it their own way far too long in the lower end of the PC market.
Putting all that aside, we won't really know the final outcome until at least SP1 is released. From a stats point of view I'd wager a bet that the probablility of it being returned is very, very high..