I like the Metro stuff, but for a desktop/laptop computer, I'd much rather have Metro as "the desktop" (or integrated into it or somehow), rather than as a layer on top that you then push to one side to get down to the old-style shell.
And I'm not convinced by having access to the old-style shell on a tablet is a particularly good idea - the whole idea of the tablet as a "consumer device" rather than a mini computer seems to run counter to that. I mean, do you complain that your radio doesn't have a desktop? Addressing the lack of a "filesystem" is good, but I wish they'd not seem to be satisfied with just porting the "hierarchical folders and files" filesystem concept across - that metaphor isn't a fundamental law, it's just what we're used to, and I'm sure that they've got the brains to come up with something more natural that could work easily with other computers that do still use that concept (no, I don't have any ideas as to what that might look like).
And I'm not convinced by having access to the old-style shell on a tablet is a particularly good idea - the whole idea of the tablet as a "consumer device" rather than a mini computer seems to run counter to that. I mean, do you complain that your radio doesn't have a desktop? Addressing the lack of a "filesystem" is good, but I wish they'd not seem to be satisfied with just porting the "hierarchical folders and files" filesystem concept across - that metaphor isn't a fundamental law, it's just what we're used to, and I'm sure that they've got the brains to come up with something more natural that could work easily with other computers that do still use that concept (no, I don't have any ideas as to what that might look like).