Windows 8 released for all to try

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Originally Posted by yakaddict

Lets just be honest, this is not progress, its retarded. It does not look better. Adding tiles as a desktop that a computer from 2002 could have run does not look good, and the search feature is worthless. It now takes about 5 steps rather than two to pull up the control panel, and accessing my pictures and folders also takes more work. I cant really search for files and applications instantly like in 7, etc etc. Instead of fixing the problems with 7 and leaving the metro UI as an option for tablets (which is actually a genius idea) they have tried to integrate it into a desktop UI (which is impossible). In its current state windows 8 is no more than a brilliant idea gone wrong in every conceivable way. And they still havent added in multiple desktops. The ONLY feature windows 7 was lacking to make it compete directly and on the same terms with mac and linux. I really do hope they manage to integrate this into a functional system within the next year, or even better, add an option to remove the stupid UI overlay completely during installation, but in its current state I think this picture is required:

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