[InTheSwiss]

1. Yeah WinFS would be nice but it seems to be out of reach still from a development point of view. Perhaps if it were a totally new file system and not having to maintain some kind of backwards compatibility with NTFS? Who knows I am not a file system developer but I do know Microsoft put some serious development work into WinFS back in the pre-Vista days and it was just too difficult.

2. God yes! Why the hell did they get rid of the connection center they had in Vista and 7 and turn it into a god damn side bar thing!?! Networking is painful on 8.

3. I miss the games too. It is bullshit that Microsoft made them ad-based Modern apps.

4. It is depressing to see how far things went backwards with these shitty fullscreen apps in Windows 8. They are nice on a tablet yes but on a desktop or laptop?! Horrible.

5. My biggest issue with the start screen is that they removed features that were present in the start menu. If the start screen were a full replacement to the start menu it wouldn't be such of an issue but how it is at the moment isn't nice for anything other than just launching an application. I don't agree with the ribbon comments. I find the ribbon to be fantastic and always have. I love Office with the ribbon and hate having to use LibreOffice with all the options lost in menus and sub-menus. The ribbon makes so much more sense and is far more user friendly and is one of the best UI features to come from Microsoft in years.

[marcosdumay]

About #1, it just takes something like Beagle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_%28software%29) integrated with the file explorer, MS does not even need to touch the filesystem. But I never tought it was that usefull, and I can't get all the hype around the concept.

About #3, yep, XP's pinball is just great, I'd expect the number of good games to go up in newer releases, not down.