My problem with Microsoft's Windows 8....

First of all, please have a look at this, about the Start Menu vs the Start Screen & Tiles. This illustrates the reasons why some of us have a problem with products from Mighty Microsoft.

Most consumer products, like refrigerators or washing machines or cars or motorcycles, or even the grocery and bakery products that you buy are made as they are as a result of research into consumer demand and have their features or usefulness carefully tailored in response to whatever the consumer has expressed a desire to buy or use. 

Microsoft, in contrast, creates operating systems for our computers based not so much on whatever we'd like to see included in them, but rather whatever Microsoft in its wisdom has decided might be best for Microsoft and the future of computing as they see it. For decades, Microsoft almost openly sneered at its users and implied that we know nothing about that mysterious business and therefore weren't entitled to any input or opinion as to what it ought to contain or consist of in its real-world incarnations. That kind of unmitigated insolence should not go unrewarded. Yet they've been making billions by telling us what we ought to accept and pay for and learn to like, whether or not their latest abortion was fully useful, properly functional, or worth the price demanded for it.

Microsoft was two years behind schedule bringing out Windows Vista, and then they made such a mess of it that it took another couple of years to rework it into Windows 7, and in the meanwhile, Apple got the jump on them in the newly emerging mobile market. A market that yet is only less than ten percent of the total number of computer users, while slightly more than ninety percent of us still use our desktops. And the point I'm stumbling toward here is that desktops don't need an operating system optimized specifically for small mobile devices like smart phones, pads, tablets, and dinky little laptops. Windows 8 that is.

We don't need an operating system that forces us to perform extra steps to get onto our desktops, where we actually do something useful. Computers, after all, do have more practical purposes than simply playing games, or sending tweets,
or friending some dumb-ass you've never personally met nor likely ever will.
And Mighty Microsoft shouldn't be telling us what we want, it ought to be the other way around, and we ought to be telling them what we're willing to buy or what we really expect from an operating system. 

One thing I do not expect from an operating system is being forced to perform more actions in the newest one than I did in its predecessor to get to the same result. That is not progress. That is a one-way ticket to the Recycle Bin. And whoever built that insult to my stupidity deserves a good swift kick in the groin.