I believe it might be nice for Linux users. But most "feature" are wrong for standard user and even more for beginners.
=== my feelings:
Reason 1: contextual ribbon. Without talking about the visual attractiveness it is a complete loss of space. It is like someone saying: "Hey, you know you could do this!" "Would you want to open this image?". "Hey would you want to see the size of you hard drive?". "Hey would you want to launch your movie inside Windows Media Player given by you by Microsoft(c) for the unique and incredibly user friendly Windows 8?"
Hey losing so much space for annoying possibilities. I don't know for whom it will be useful? Annoying for power users. Noisy for new ones.
Reason 2 - Copy: ??? Incredible I can have a screen displaying how I copy a file! I confess the ability to pause the copy can be nice for very huge files.
Reason 3 - Copy path button? Yes if you are a geek and want to use the command line.
Reason 4 - Up button! Whoa!
Reason 5 - Customizing How To View Files & Folders is Dead Easy!: Just look at the screenshot! There are at least 20 different widget! _EASY_? I don't think so.
Reason 6: The Quick Access Toolbar! Yes, we didn't had enought button!
Reason 7: Searching is fixed in windows 8? Good news! Just some years after Mac and Linux.
Reason 8: Open "cmd" on the current location. Great my son and my wife will feel like "UB3R 1337!".
Reason 9: Mount ISO Disc Image. You're kidding, it wasn't here before?
Reason 10: Multile instance in multiple processes. Incredible, when the five firsts windows will be stuck I could also stuck a new one :-).
Reason 11: Easy management of Favorite folder. Incredible! I should buy windows 8 just for this incredible new feature! On XP I used ie6 to mark my favorite folders.
Reason 12: Easy copying and moving files and folders. Super! I can now click on another buttons! I love button! Give me more! Yeah, drag and drop is boring.
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Sorry, for the general ambiance of this comment. I didn't want to hurt anybody. But seriously, it is a joke. I only hope it was really a satirical article in the end and I was trolled.
The only positives point are Reason 2, 7, 9 and Reason 10 which are bug fixes, not features.
"Make It Simple! Stupid!".
Seriously, most of these feature are anti pattern for standard user even if they seems good for many power users. Please, rename your finder: "pro-finder" and in the name of everything good in this world make a "nice, simple, minimal finder for the rest of the world!"