[jccodez]

I use classic shell with win8. It gives me everything I was use to and I can boot to desktop mode. I think they will bring back some of what they took out in order to cater to businesses. They know businesses will not touch win8 as is and need to reincorporate what was removed during the refactor of win8. There is still support for god mode as well

[stcredzero]

The above would also be free and FOSS. A desktop OS that can run Microsoft Office just fine could be a compelling competitor.