Okay, so another update to be looking for.  Thank you. 

EDIT:  I looked at some Windows 8 stuff and now understand what Metro is.   I will have to wait and see but I think I will be looking for the 'Off' or 'Minimize' button for Metro. 

Tiles is designed to address what we think will be a big issue in Windows 8 (and the build conference is making obvious) that the Metro "full screen" UI is not ideal for getting stuff done in a PC environment. 

Tiles will let users take advantage of the Metro style UI conventions but gain advantage of the big screen of a typical desktop system.

Watched the keynote (just ended). Not a terrible lot new (yet)... except the cross syncing of every device tied into Live.... Connectivity is the emphasis (so far)... and use of the Cloud based apps... makes the tablet more of a switchboard.

Don't really see touchscreen typing (is slow and laborious) as being much more than a helper app for email, etc. These tablets will have to have keyboards for any serious work. Oh yes... and mice. Forget spreadsheets with simple touch screens.

What was nice was the ability to connect to the office/home PC and extract what you need/want.

What isn't nice is that it will tunnel to the cloud and back to that PC. Too much data flying around with who knows who's watching it go by... also not keen on the legal aspects of it. The data/info isn't clearly 'in your possession' and private if it's passing through Live. Won't that make it 'public' and render the 4th Amendment superfluous?

That's a pretty cool app, I'm enjoying it a lot!

I use it like a virtual Desktop . . but better.  Love it!

Uh....ok that really explained nothing. So it's basically that awful tile interface? Hardly seems usable in a PC environment.

Thank god for that ... Microsoft, I don't have a touch screen, I'm not about to use one and for me the Metro interface looks too flashy ... information should be easy to read.

Tiles ...

Which is why I wrote this:

But "Tiles" might rescue Windows 8 yet.

Also, the Metro interface will probably be interchangable with a taskbar type arrangement for non touchscreen PC's. Your Vista and W7 apps and XP as well (probably) will be usable. 

DosBox.

Bebi... sorry I didn't see this. I feel badly about that, so try this..

http://www.howtogeek.com/74089/windows-8-the-gigantic-how-to-geek-screenshot-tour/

Hope it helps....

If it does not at first then its developers will likely make it work.

Bebi, a quick and easy registry edit will give you back the normal start menu.  

Excerpt from the news article:

"If you want to disable Metro UI entirely, you can open up the registry editor and change the value of RPEnabled to 0 instead of 1 at the following key: (via NeoWin)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\

Note that we’re not recommending this, because it makes installing Windows 8 fairly pointless."

Of course, at this point, that would basically leave you with windows 7....lol.

I'm a little confused.  The Metro interface is for launching apps.  The Tiles application is for selecting between already running apps, is it not?