We'll see how it ends ... We hope that Mom M$ has reconsidered and working for desktop PC users around the various problems encountered with common hardware, and not only the optimization for touch mobile devices.. thanks.
MS would not reconsider to put back in the start menu, because now there is classic shell that can successfully replace it, so we are stuck with Windows 8 as it is. Let's hope that Sinofsky will WAKE UP from the TABLET-HIGH and correct his mistakes of judgement.
If they don't give us the option to completely and utterly disable Metro in W8 desktop, this is going to be the next Vista. Choose wisely, M$.
i guess they gonna remove Taskbar cuz Charm bar has Clock, Date, Network, Volume, Power....etc!! and all apps Appear and Minimized to LEFT Side so the next step will be (User can explore apps and programs from Left Side) so taskbar will be a History like Start Button, and you can try this: hide your taskbar, now open metro menu and open any app Like Windows Explorer (dont Minimize) now Open Metro Menu and Fly to Top Left Corner youll get Windows Explorer Minimized same as in Taskbar. any app or programs like Mail. Firefox..... etc do the same job. and if you do this for a while you'll forget taskbar like me. here the magic: i thnik M$ training us to learn how to use The Left side and Forget Taskbar.
Delicious! Can I expect that RC will force major applications/drivers developers to officially support Win8? What situation was with Win7: after RC or only after final release? I'm planning to build new machine about this time. Want to switch directly to Win8.