Ok, let me see if I can address this so, there can be a reasonable, sound discussion. First of all this, "You will support win 8. This leads me to believe that you are indeed a fan boy or evangelist.", is a meaningless catch-phrase being frantically, vainly, used as a defence mechanism. It makes no sense & has no place or value in a worthwhile discussion.
"Win 8 is a smartphone OS forced upon PC users" this is simply false & shows an utter lack of grasping overall concepts, certain technologies, meaning & motivations for things. Don't take offence, but, it shows a complete unwillingness to get out of oneself and a tendency to compare apples & oranges and whine that one is not the other; of course it's not!
I listen, I am not, the brick wall, here. To listen and try to correct, is not being deaf. To call it deaf is, again, hiding behind a defense mechanism.
"brand new OS needs 3rd party applications", NO IT DOES NOT!! To use, like leverage for a case against Windows 8, to say, because 3rd party stuff is "needed", the system is flawed, does not hold water, because it does
not need the stuff. However, you are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy by telling people such stuff IS needed & that therefore the OS is bad.
There is (1), no need or reason to "get rid of Modern UI" and (2) this is not bias or opinion which, you imply makes things unworthy of being believed or accepted, it is nothing but, observation and statements of fact and (3) you want to get rid of things that YOU are not willing to even try to see are useful or of any interest to anyone. IF, you are taking about getting past the Start screen that takes all of a 1/2 a second, 1 click or 1 key stroke... not deserving of making any fuss over it. IF, again, referring to Start & its Tile, neither, even, need to be used (there are other ways), IF, it's Windows 8 Store APPs, much as some may like them, again, there is NO obligation to use them, IF, it's about so-called 'hidden' control points that is, again, not being willing to work w/ a new & different kind of fruit BUT, does NOT mean the method is inherently bad. It means someone is not willing to discover and learn or adapt or adjust to another way of things.
There are many who will vouch for and verify that Windows 8 functions well,
as it is! Myself, I have use many Windows Operating Systems. And worked w/ a huge variety of clients. Both they and myself familiar w/ previous Windows,
of the past. They had good and bad about them, various things various people liked while others didn't. The same is true for Windows 8. People become 'comfy' w/ things. But to dress something up like something it's not, merely complicates things and confuses them
and people. A more fitting and positive endeavour is to guide folks in how to use Windows 8. This would be better than, based of untruths tell them is bad, unworkable and NEEDS some thing added to make it look and act like some other OS. For eight months I, and many others, have
JOYFULLY used Windows 8 non-stop w/out adding anything. During the whole time discovering an impressive, technically superior, capable, Feature laden, fast, stable, secure, fun, easy OS. WE are not all wrong. But, it is wrong to mislead people. And it is wrong for you to be so stubborn and close-minded. It is wrong to treat people who 'see' realities, rationales, the 'big picture' conceptually and that computing is changing & has changed, as functioning under some warped bias that renders them w/out credibility.
As far as what End Users say... there is a huge amount of positive reaction, excitement and enthusiasm being expressed. People getting Windows 8 and saying, "This is very cool!". I recently worked remotely w/ a client in another city who was installing Windows 8 for the first time. I gave him a 'heads up' that it was going to be 'different'. Once it was 'live', I gave him some 'Show & Tell'... w/in minutes he
understood, found it (using the OS) made sense, was fun & easy and was impressed on several levels, for several reasons.
BUT, he was given a positive approach
and accuracy and NO (unnecessary) 3rd Party items.
Cheers,
Drew