Windows 8:The future of computing?

So,it is not long now until Microsoft's shiny new  operating system is festooned upon us for us all to enjoy.It must be only a matter of time before Windows '8' is the OS filling up those tiny squares we call pixels on desktops,laptops and tablets across the globe.Right?

Windows 8's new interface

   Wrong.Well at least to some extent anyway. According to Microsoft, Windows 8 features "a new user interface that responds equally well to touch as it does to keyboard and mouse".The tablet-centric interface formerly known as 'Metro'(or 'Modern' as its now been dubbed) offers a hopeful glance toward the future. A funky,fluid,touch-based future in  which intuitive swipes and flicks let  us glide effortlessly through our systems with a  simple piece of motor neuron activity, a future in which also apparently no one gets any work done and spends agonising seconds trying to open a single desktop app without a  flippin' start button! I will be highly unlikely that businesses and workplaces switch to this new OS.

Windows 8 in desktop mode

       You would not be far wrong to render Windows 8 as a giant one fingered solute  to productivity and all it that stands for. But. while featuring a rich tablet experience, the OS does not completely forget lovers of the classic desktop layout. Desktop mode can be accessed from the 'start screen', it features an interface similar to Microsoft's previous offering, Windows 7,but with one notable admission - the absence of a proper start button. Clicking the Windows logo in bottom left takes you back to the desktop un-friendly modern user interface which is definitely a pain to navigate through.
                                                                               "You would not be far wrong to render Windows 8 as a giant one fingered solute  to productivity and   all it that stands for."
          While it is possible that Microsoft will eventually freeze out the desktop layout that we have grown to love. I for one am hoping that Steve Ballmer and his crew are following Microsoft's 'one good,one bad one' pattern with this latest iteration.