> If they put the start button back and default to the desktop, that would address 90% of people's concerns.

And that would erase 90% of Windows 8. Hard to call Windows 8 a success if Win8.1 or whatever reverts back to the good ol' start-button-driven desktop by default. Windows 8 will be what, an obscure alternate desktop hidden in a user setting that no one will use?

The whole measure of success for Windows 8 is exactly the new UI and whether the users, you know, use it. The old desktop is barely an evolution of Windows 7 for the common user.