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What are you excited for (and not excited for) in Windows 8?

Microsoft already showed off a lot of Windows 8 at CES earlier this year, but Microsoft says we'll be seeing a lot more of it at their BUILD conference in roughly 3 weeks. This got me thinking.. What are you excited for (and possibly not excited for) in Windows 8?

Personally, I REALLY want to try out the new UI layer that 8 is showing off. It might be kind of weird to use on desktops and/or laptops, but it looks like it'd be amazing to use on tablets. This means that we could see actual, solid tablets running Windows by this time next year. (Windows 7 tablets thus far have been all things considered quite disappointing). I'm NOT excited for the change to ribbon UI. (As seen in Office 2007-present). At CES Microsoft showed that navigating filesystems and folders would use the ribbon UI, which I personally find clunky and hard to navigate (or I should say, inconvenient).

What about you?
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SpartanTitus

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I want to have Windows 8 in a tablet. Or even be able to install it on an Asus Eee Pad Transformer, or other Android tablet!.
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  1. Windows 8 enable me to have a slate PC for easy content consumption n light note taking / sketching. That same slate PC, plugged to a keyboard and mouse, can also be a work station for effective content creation. Moreover all the application which I have invested can also be used.
    The notion of no compromise excite me.
  2. The immersive and beautiful Metro style App also excites me.
  3. The tight integration to Live / cloud also excites me.
  4. The power granted by having web of application also excites me.
  5. The fast boot up, NFC, Hyper V .... basically everything Windows 8 excites me.
The down side is the fact that Win 8 is not available this year and we do not really know how much those machines will cost.
The rumoured Amazon Tablet, running a Forked Android, price point might make all Windows 8 machines seem expensive.
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