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I start to see two camps on Windows8. Some who love the surface usage idea, tech people who can easily adapt and the other camp having a real challenge with the new UI. The majority of users are the second part and I think it will be a long hard battle for MS to convince that group. At least they tried something new.

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As long as I can pull up a command prompt I realy don't care as it's the easiest way to move all files starting in "A" and ending in "Z" (move A*Z ./wibble/wap/woo/.). Show me a GUI that does it easier and then we can talk about progress.

GUI's can't, and that's why so many tech companies are trying to develop intelligent voice controls. Saying, "Hey move all of the files starting with A and ending with Z" is easier to remember than command line syntax. Don't try and make a GUI do something it's not designed to do, you'll end up with a bad GUI, not progress.

I love the command prompt as well, but there are several hundred million users who don't even know what that is.

Using Total Commander, hit F6 (move), hit tab to move to the "only files of this type" box, type "A*Z", and then hit Enter.

You forgot my camp: Persons so abused by Microsoft over the years that I'm fresh out of goodwill.

Metro looks bitchin. I can't wait for others to copy it.

But I can't imagine Microsoft sustaining their commitment. Nor can I imagine them not trashing whatever investment I've made in their platform(s), either as a user or as a dev.

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