Catering for new laptop and tablet form factors is well and good, but forgetting (or ignoring) 99 per cent of the market using traditional laptops and desktops was foolish. The advances Windows 8 made in touch usability were negated by the ropey keyboard and mouse integration as Microsoft threw out the baby with the bathwater. Remember most people still use a keyboard and mouse It also needs to enable apps to operate on the desktop (not in a split window) to encourage greater use and spur on developers. Syncing wallpapers between both was a step in the right direction, but the touch UI should have a transparent background to feel more like a flyover to the desktop and therefore never disorientating the user. Speculation is Microsoft may formally split the platform into formal desktop and Windows RT only versions, but that would be a backwards step. In merging the traditional Windows desktop with a finger-friendly touchscreen interface Windows 8 broke new ground, but the implementation was jarring.
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