Four months in, Windows 8 needs help
Found on CNet News on Saturday, 09 March 2013
Windows 8 PC sales are "horribly stalled," as O'Donnell put it. So maybe Microsoft should rethink the design, as O'Donnell -- whose business it is to get input from PC makers -- thinks the company may be doing.
"It's possible [Microsoft] is making changes to the OS [to allow a boot to desktop mode]. There's a lot of debate about it. Certainly if you talk to PC vendors, they'd like to see Microsoft do that. Because they recognize some of the challenges that consumers are facing."
If your users are not happy with your new design, change it. Simple as that. An OS is a platform for all sorts of software and should make work as easy as possible. Users have learned to work with the classic Windows desktop, so naturally they expect it to stay. However, sometimes the developers go out of control and come up with something that's not useable. Just like Metro. Or Gnome 3.