I've been playing with Win 8 on a VMware VM, and I'm with GG on the non-intuitiveness of Metro as a desktop GUI. It may be wonderful on a tablet or something with a touchscreen, but having to have VMware send it Ctrl-Alt-Del every time I want to log in, and double Ctrl-Alt-Del when I want to log out and shut down, is just annoying. "Tin cans tied to its tail" is my impression of that. While it was obvious why I needed to migrate my Windows setup from XP to Win 7 (skipping Vista), it is not at all obvious why I would even think of migrating it to Win 8, unless/until Win 7 reaches the end of all hope of sufficiency.
On the TPM / UEFI thing, being a DIY builder of my own computers, and a Newegg customer for 8 years now, it looks to me like the smart motherboard OEM is going to maintain a line of BIOS-compatible products, or at least products that allow the builder to defeat mandatory lock-in to a self-destructing OS. I'm a Linux user today due strictly to Microsoft's attempts to interfere with my prerogatives as the exclusive owner-operator of my hardware. I'm no more enamored of manipulative controls built into the hardware than I am of manipulative controls built into the OS.
On the TPM / UEFI thing, being a DIY builder of my own computers, and a Newegg customer for 8 years now, it looks to me like the smart motherboard OEM is going to maintain a line of BIOS-compatible products, or at least products that allow the builder to defeat mandatory lock-in to a self-destructing OS. I'm a Linux user today due strictly to Microsoft's attempts to interfere with my prerogatives as the exclusive owner-operator of my hardware. I'm no more enamored of manipulative controls built into the hardware than I am of manipulative controls built into the OS.
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