Now, to make a ridiculous example that you might actually understand, imagine a plague killed all of the human-edible fruits, vegetables, and grains in the world, and the only way to survive is to eat grazing animals that can digest plants like grass that we can't. The catch is, you're a vegan and are completely repulsed at the thought of eating animals. So, do you give up your entire previous life to "follow the herd" and eat a different diet, or do you die? You, Malphas, would drop everything you have ever stood up for and chow down because that's just what everyone else who each has a different backstory than you is doing, while we, who are consistent and defend our preferences and habits, would struggle in the new environment.
Hey, you're right.
That is a ridiculous example.
I'm going to go ahead and say that some people prefer the taste of meat. Just because you apparently don't like Win8 doesn't mean other people don't appreciate the improved performance, use of live tiles to provide streaming information and improved functionality on touch-based machines.
Sure, you have to cope with a new start menu and a modified layout, but come on, this is like if you had a car with, I don't know, a manual transmission, and then the same model of car got released with a semi-auto transmission and everybody is ****ting their pants "I have to deal with a paddle shifter now! This is an outrage"
Seriously, Windows 8 and Windows 7 are, besides some pretty basic changes in the UI, pretty much the damn same OS. Everything that ran on 7 will run on 8 just fine.
If you want to see outrageous UI changes, try out literally any flavour of linux.
"My toolbar is on the side now? WHO DESIGNED THIS?"
EDIT: Also, not meant as a personal shot, but the scenario you described above speaks to me more as a refusal to adapt just as much as a moral obligation. I would say the majority of the complaints about windows 8 don't come from self described "power users" who feel that windows 8 is a step backwards, I would say that it comes from the ignorant (I.E. uninformed) to the changes and don't care to learn about them before using the machine. AKA the guys who love windows XP so much and only updated to 7 six months ago because their buddies convinced them that it's "good" and "better than vista" or something, and they are now outraged that M$ is releasing "yet another cash in"
Face it. 7 Is already 3 years old and XP is over a decade old. The start menu was introduced in windows 95, nearly 20 years ago. It's had it's day in the sun.
I would say 3 years is very much ample time for an OS refresh.
