Rumor: Windows 8 sales "well below" Microsoft's expectations

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Slimebeast said:

Adinnieken said:

Slimebeast said:

Scoobes said:
This article seems to fit the OP. I haven't finished reading it yet but it seems an interesting analysis/opinion piece:

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/14/microsoft-has-failed/

Yeah, in summary Microsoft leadership is out of touch with reality and the whole Win 8 echosystem (incl Phone 8, Win 8 tablets and the Win 8 PC OS) is such an enormous failure that will even start to alienate the business market and lead to a death spiral for MS.

There are some reports that Enterprise can be enabled with a classic menu system.  It isn't an option available to consumers, but again to Enterprise licensees. 

This is what confuses me. I thought even in the consumer version of Win 8, the classic desktop layout was just one click away and you could completely ignore the Metro interface if you like.

What's the truth?

The traditional desktop is only one click away, though it lacks the traditional start menu. however there are a heap of free apps to return the start menu. At first the new windows UI irritated me and slowed me down considerably but once I basically wiped every default app off the start screen and put all the apps I use the majority of the time plus a few of the usual windows admin tools and powershell etc on there and learnt all the window key shortcuts it has actually become faster to use on my desktop, though I still find it somewhat awkward on my non touchscreen laptop.