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Originally Posted by ShaneC
I'm just not getting the hammer analogy. You're not forced to live in Metro. If you want to avoid Metro entirely you can,......
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but you are taken there by default, and can quite easily end up back in there accidentally, and you have to use the childish Charm screens, lol and Metro shows EVERYTHING installed on my computer event manager, ODBC data sources
+ there are other problems (device manager, windows '.', left hand preview tabs which mostly don't actually work (at least not for me))as well though its not fair to start on them with a release-candidate which is still very beta-ish.
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Originally Posted by ShaneC
The misunderstanding here, I think, is the assumption that Metro is only for mobile.
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no totally the opposite, no misunderstanding at all
, the misunderstanding is that 95% of windows 8 users will NOT be using a mobile nor a touch screen for some while to come unless Windows Phone can outdo android/ios, even then windows 8 will be pushed onto millions of machines that have no touch or are impractical for touch (standard 23+inch screens)
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Originally Posted by ShaneC
It isn't. I've seen a lot of individuals who like it on their traditional desktops. It's simple, it's immersive. Not every PC user is an epic multitasker with e-mail, chat, Netflix, and Starcraft all up at the same time.
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immersive 
I saw that coined somewhere else from microsoft, its (IMO) a cop-out, one can choose to be immersed in 1 application at any time on any OS simply by clicking fullscreen.
no not everyone is a multi-tasker in the true sense and there are times when metro style apps will be useful and fun like my HTC mobile is on android, but for everyday computing the vast majority of day to day at work users will not be using Metro & I think you know that
... if it was not default then that would not really be an issue.
Anyway we are going to have to agree to disagree here methinks ! all I can say in my wrap up is as before, it feels like 2 operating systems glued together, badly, the edges don't quite fit, one half is interesting but not much use in my everyday tasks and the other if fine, albeit missing a few bits which could quite easily been left in without causing anyone any pain.Also whenever I pick it up, the broken side is always facing me... every time