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It appears the "revolt" was more simple resistance to change among the installed base, which is sad, but no question MS has had their heads handed to them with Win8. YMMV
It is hard to teach old dogs new tricks.
I disagree. Most people embrace
positive change. But change for change's sake, or change that does not markedly improve the experience? Why bother to relearn anything for no benefit? People legitimately gripe about that. Every change took effort for the developers, and can create bugs - it's frustrating when the effort isn't applied to changes/fixes that provide clear benefit. Otherwise, leave well enough alone.
The Linux/Ubuntu community went through this with the 'Unity" (IOS/tablet-like) interface. If you like it, great. But those that liked it kept accusing others of being 'resistant to change', or 'old dogs'. Kinda crazy considering most of us had to put some effort into
changing from Windows or OSX to Linux. If we were resistant to change, why didn't we stick with the old OS?
I tried Unity on Ubuntu. It might be nice for a tablet, but it sure didn't work for me for the way I use my computer. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to install a new interface on Ubuntu and use that, so I switched to Xubuntu (which required another
change), which allowed me to configure it (that is,
changing from the default), and got it tweaked just the way I like. Whenever I come across some utility that will help me work/play better, I also make that
change.
That's a lot of change for someone who is described as 'resistant to change'.
-ERD50