Windows Store - Windows 8

How is it possible for Microsoft to make such a weak effort, a company so large and with such resources and this is the best design they can come up with. It is no wonder that other designers are leaving Microsoft in their wake. I mean come on who approved this; it is just trying to copy others when you could be designing new state of the art, simple yet stunning to look at. Microsoft has the resources but obviously no longer have the people who have any vision. It makes me feel sick to think I am sitting here knowing I could do better than that times fifty yet I will never get that chance.

I just have a plain computer and thus cannot use my finger to wipe away the strip of ads on the right side of the screen.

It is very unpleasant and unprofessional to try to send a message to someone and have the recepient see the ads detracting from the message.

Please tell me how to disable these ads.  My universal policy is to never buy from an organization that uses such an unprofessional approach.

I am very disappointed with Hotmail but I don't want to go to the trouble of switching to gmail.

Jim Martin,

Installed Windows 8 customer preview today on a laptop, I have to say with a little trepidation as the metro tile view looks utterly awful on windows mobile  (imo). And I was amazed, how does Microsoft manage to get things so wrong?

To market this as Windows 8 is a MASSIVE mistake, call it 'Windows for Tablets' or something and there's no issue, for messing about on a tablet / mobile touch screen it probably is a better effort than the touch features of Windows 7 but only the truly deluded could imagine that those of us who use computers for more than facebook / youtube  are going to make a choice to move to this fisher price OS.

MS are like bunnies in the headlights not knowing which way to turn, chasing after the iFad grail and throwing the baby out with the bathwater by trashing the usability of Win 7 for this! Vista failed on one point, it hid things and made it hard to administer (look at the problems home users had and the lack of take up by the commercial market) Win 7 just addressed this issue and hey everyone was happy again (ish). Win 8 looks like history repeating itself.

Looking on he bright side there will be loads of work porting poor customers back to Win 7 or over to Linux OS's  when they get conned into buying PC's with he latest 'great' OS from Microsoft !

@ Lyndon Irwin

Im putting off waking up in the morning because of windows 8 (in fear that one day it will be released) :)

why the hell do i want something that looks like the OS of a phone on my bloody desktop?

Ok so you can change it to the classic look, i understand that, i can do that with windows 7, in fact considering, ill just keep with windows 7, the colors are a lot better rather than looking like it was stolen out of a art gallery.

The second thing, my dads (god that makes me sound young lol) got a touch screen acer PC combo thingy, he got fed up using the touch screen as he had to keep leaning over to it, we also put it to the test, it was more faster and more productive for me to use a mouse than for him to use the touch screen. and vice versa.