I'm amazed that Windows is sold and tied to one user interface!
Why they don't afford the user choice like Linux I don't know.
Forcing users to make a limited choice of one is going to upset many, change can be bad as well as good.
Come SP1/2 of windows8 they will offer alternative user interfaces - can smell the outcome in the air. Failing that they will have a active market in alternatives that will become more mainstream aware than the alternatives currently.
If you sit down at a friend's Windows box, with two buttons, you can use it, again with no problems. But just try making sense of a friend's X terminal: three buttons, each one programmed a different way to perform a different function on each different day of the week -- and that's before you consider combinations like control-left-button, shift-right-button, control-shift-meta-middle-button, and so on.
There is also a very active windows theme customization community who use tools like windows blinds to tweak the current windows theme into something you probably wouldn't recognize.
What i mean is you get the windows GUI and are not afforded any alternatives like you are browsers, there are alternatives out there but they are not for the faint hearted and that in itself is the issue. Tech's like us have no issue with them but for joe public then they only see what they are given and when they are not offered an option then they see no choice.
Why they don't afford the user choice like Linux I don't know.
Forcing users to make a limited choice of one is going to upset many, change can be bad as well as good.
Come SP1/2 of windows8 they will offer alternative user interfaces - can smell the outcome in the air. Failing that they will have a active market in alternatives that will become more mainstream aware than the alternatives currently.