[eropple]

it is as open as ever

What I see when I press the Windows key on my keyboard tells me you're wrong. That's still my desktop, whether you want to call it the desktop or not.

[OriginalSyn]

Exactly, by default the metro app labelled as desktop feels more like the equivalent of the command prompt in earlier version of Windows than an actual desktop... a power user/administration feature that is shamefully pushed off to the side by the OS hoping you won't notice it.