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I remember watching the video on the Building Windows blog when they showed off the interface for the first time. Sitting there stunned thinking it had to be a joke, it looked horrible.

They were proudly showing off how your could multitask TWO whole programs and I wondered what they were smoking.

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Actually the multitasking is really useful, when you are on a tablet. Metro is only great for a touchscreen, that's all. They tried to use it for desktop too, which was the big mistake.

On my Android phone I can't really chat on Skype and surf the web at the same time, I need to switch from one to another every time. On my Windows tablet (the Asus Transformer Book T100) I can do that easily.

Their big mistake was to market it as a desktop OS. They made a tablet OS, that's all.

The unification argument is compelling, but there had to have been a better way to go about it than "OK everyone, use your workstations like tablets and everything will be A-OK! The PC is dead, you know." Someone at MS was trying a little too hard to be ahead of the curve.

Yeah I completely agree with you, MS was trying to be ahead of the curve and they failed miserably. Different input devices need different visual interface. What I'm saying is essentially that Metro is amazing for a tablet, way better than Windows 7, but it's disgusting with a mouse.

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