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Choice is good, people! It should be very interesting to see what the "normals" think of Windows 8 starting next week. If you're the kind of person intrigued by the new and unfamiliar, you might love it. If you're in the who-moved-my-cheese camp -- or the Office Ribbon Haters Club -- you may not.

I'm hoping we see something good when it comes to whatever brochure-ware Microsoft and its partners will I'm hearing make available with new Windows 8 PCs to help familiarize users with all the new gestures, shortcuts, and navigational changes Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. By Ian W , January 20, By RickC , August 12, Search In.

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This is a good article. My brother just switched and he emails me with questions. I KNOW he expects things to be extremely complex. I tell him to relax and think LESS about it. He bent over backwards not to slam Windows. And yet, in the end, he came to the same conclusion that many are reaching these days: MacOSX is simply a better personal computing environment. For instance, the "Photos" tile shows an image from the user's collection, and the "People" tile shows images from the user's social-media contacts.

Microsoft is licensed to use AP content in the Windows 8 news applications. The tiles are big and easy to hit with a finger — convenient for a touch screen.

Applications fill the whole screen by default — convenient for a tablet screen, which is usually smaller than a PC's. The little buttons that surround Windows 7 applications, for functions like controlling the speaker volume, are hidden, giving a clean, uncluttered view.

When you need those little buttons, you can bring them out, but users have to figure out on their own how to do it. Technology blogger Chris Pirillo posted a YouTube video of his father using a preview version of Windows 8 for the first time.

As the elder Pirillo tours the operating system with no help from his son, he blunders into the old "Desktop" environment and can't figure out how to get back to the Start tiles.

Hint: Move the mouse cursor into the top right corner of the screen, then swipe down to the "Start" button that appears, and click it. On a touch screen, swipe a finger in from the right edge of the screen to reveal the Start button.

The four-minute video has been viewed more than 1. People will have to work hard and use this system on a regular basis. Mace, the software CEO, has used every version of Windows since version 2.