[joe_the_user]

Uh yeah ... Windows 8 has taken us all the way back to the Windows 3.1 days where everyone had a different cool app/utility just to make their machine barely usable. The last thing MS would/should/could want is dependence on third party apps for basic functionality.

The twenty, thirty, however many years have shown just how important and how defining the default settings are. "It's easy to change!" doesn't solve the problems with X default settings for just about anything.

It's like that Saturday Live sketch - "Warning: this is a bag of glass" still makes the, uh, "Bag Of Glass" toy a little problematic. And it's got me thinking about the 80's (or was that the 70's, those ole' memories...)