While OS X certainly needs some love and attention, and even iOS could use more than a fresh coat of paint, it's still practical and usable.

Windows 8 seems garish and over-complicated while, impossibly, being dumbed down to uselessness. Seeing video after video of people flail about with what should be routine tasks is amusing enough to watch, but probably no fun for an amateur.

I have no idea what IT departments will make of their business computers suddenly looking like an XBox, either.