Installing Windows 8

I loaded it on a VM environment just to try it, and IMO, it is that bad. MS is trying to force a tablet interface onto the desktop and it just doesn't work that way.

There is a way to get a "normal" desktop, but what little I used it, it was severely gimped. I am far more experienced with a PC than an average person and in my opinion, it was not at all intuitive. It seemed like an entirely new OS. This was even with the desktop view. For example: I opened the email client and fuck me if I couldn't close it. I had to actually reboot my VM just to get out of the email.Now, for touch interfaces? I could see it catching on. Like the desktop monitors that are touch enabled. But to use this interface with a keyboard/mouse is god damned retarded.

They already have them: Touchscreen MonitorsFor most circumstances, I agree. Well, for ANY home use, I agree.This is what Win8 makes me think of: (Idiocracy reference for the uninitiated)

Minority Report style? I think I read somewhere that some shit like that is in the works.

Yep. Here it is: Minority Report fiction becoming a reality

True. I guess, like Jon said earlier: interfaces like this don't quite lend themselves (yet) to data entry and actual computing.