I was baffled until I found a tiny spot to move the mouse where something happened (all the way to bottom right, size of a hanging chad). While one article touted that you really didn't need start menu after all and that you could do the same thing with Metro, it took me a half hour to find a slow way to get up a menu, and another half hour to find a fast way to do this! If you're used to Windows or any other mouse based desktop system you may think that you can use the right mouse button, or maybe bring the mouse to the various sides of the screen, or click left or right on any blank spot on the screen (very few places not covered with "click here to buy stuff" icons). Trying to figure out how to use Metro on your own is not trivial. The biggest trouble I found was lack of documentation. So when you next Laptop/Tablet/PC it will probably be reconfigured to be used as a touch device. However it is a case of Software that Drives the hardware. There were a ton of people who hated it, and we still get the debate today. Then when Windows 3.1, Most PC's started to come with a mouse standard, as well the applications for Windows started to use the mouse more. While Apple had the mouse common, the PC was mostly still Keyboard, CPU, Monitor. It started out as a toy, with only a few applications that used it. This Windows 8 Touch Screen seems like the same debate 20 years ago, when PC's started to ship with a Mouse as a common device. Thus Microsoft tying to make multi-touch better. (I myself have a Lenovo 220t, with Windows 8 RTM on it, and the interface is really nice and I like it better then Windows 7), because windows 8 supports it it means more PC manufactures will use it. Now after Windows 8 comes out, you will fine more and more PC's with multi-touch screens. You stay on Windows 7 until you want a new computer. If it came with Windows 7, the PC was designed to run Windows 7. You buy a computer and you keep your OS version for the life of the computer. Because the next set of PC's will have more tablet features in them.
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