[recoiledsnake]

>It's like, if you asked people what they wanted in a car, they would have said a faster horse.

>This is going to a huge kitchen-skin, designed-by-a-committee disaster.

Err what? You're taking the PR spin at it's face value. The reality is that people have been hollering for the old Start menu and MS just went with what they think is right and the put up a few blog posts after they implemented things as they liked.

The blog posts are really explanations of what they alread designed. Look at how they started appearing only after the Beta came and not for the 2 years Windows 8 was actually being designed?