Windows, nein

Harry McCracken has a Time article about Windows 8:

Noted usability expert Jakob Nielsen has written about Windows 8 and its dual interface, drawing on the reactions of twelve users who tried Windows 8 PCs and Surface. Whatever your own take on Windows 8, it's an interesting read:

Where can you click? Everything looks flat, and, in fact, Change PC settings looks more like the label for the icon group than a clickable command. As a result, many users in our testing didn't click this command when they were trying to access one of the features it hides.

I wonder what Microsoft's own usability testing told it while Windows 8 was in the works?

Rico says he's used Windows machines, and wouldn't again if you paid him. (And, no, don't bother bidding; it would take more money than Bill Gates has, and that's a lot...)