Windows 8: WTF is Ballmer thinking?

Secure ``poot'' farting on your freedom.
No more Start Menu, so anyone who was familiar with it since Windows 95/98/whatever has to learn a whole new UI.
Ribbon interface in more places, so anyone who kept Office 2003 or switched to Open/LibreOffice because they hate ribbon has no escape.
The GNOME/KDE UIs are more similar to Windows than Windows 8 is!
Writing programs ``apps'' in JavaScript/HTML.
One ``app'' at a time, because the rest of your cores will be used by bloated JavaScript VMs.
Making the desktop a secondary ``legacy'' interface, because nobody needs more than 640K one app at a time.
Designing your main UI for touch screens, because most desktops and laptops (the ``bread and butter'' of Windows) have touch screens, right?
Believing that supporting a touch screen means you need to gimp and dumb down your OS's features.
Removing the registry key that allows Metro to be disabled.
Turning a $1000 PC into a $100 phone, but without the ability to make phone calls.

When someone tells you ``This is the direction the world is headed, trust us,'' what they really mean is ``This is the direction we will force the world to take, you better enjoy it or we'll send you to the gulags.''

ZOG wants to take computing out of the hands of the masses and replace it with dumb kiosks and mobile devices which manage the people, instead of people managing their own lives with the devices.

They fear the masses having access to computing when the hardware is powerful enough that you can simulate a dozen human brains, because then dissidents will be able to build AGIs that are cunning enough to combat ZOG autonomously.