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.

Secure ``poot'' farting on your freedom.
Only an issue if you buy tablets or pre-builts. For the people who do buy that stuff, it is a good security feature.

Writing ``apps'' in JavaScript/HTML.
You can use Javascript (IE Chakra interpreter) to talk to WinRT. This is a good thing and hasn't been done seriously before.

One ``app'' at a time, because the rest of your cores will be used by bloated JavaScript VMs.
Not true at all.

Making the desktop a secondary ``legacy'' interface, because nobody needs more than 640K one app at a time.
Not true at all. You can run everything in desktop mode, only using Metro as a search/start menu.

Designing your main UI for touch screens, because most desktops and laptops (the ``bread and butter'' of Windows) have touch screens, right?
All the market research says touch is where the world is headed.

Believing that supporting a touch screen means you need to gimp and dumb down your OS's features.
Nope! Nothing is gimped, only new features added and past ones improved.

Removing the registry key that allows Metro to be disabled.
There are already numerous third party programs that re-implement the start menu.

>Turning a $1000 PC into a $100 phone, but without the ability to make phone calls.
You're an idiot.