I've been using Windows 8 for over a month and I can tell you this: every "app" tries to fight the user in some way.
First of all I'm going to talk about internet explorer, nothing new, its slow, unreliable, and has lots of bugs, not to mention it doesn't support flash, well they have that button here which says "view on the desktop"...really? as if they knew their explorer is bad and will absolutely fail to do some task, so they felt like giving you the ability to switch to the other, even worse explorer, to view some media, what the hell?? They forced me to use bing as the default homepage and I don't like it, google doesn't work fine on it as it hangs when you hit enter to search, now I have heard some stuff about mincrosoft not allowing any other companies such as Mozilla to create their metro style explorer, that makes things even worse, we're stuck with this thing forever.
Ok. what else? here: the E-mail app is very, very basic, you get a message, you read it, you send a massage, that's all, you can't search or load older messages so at some point, you HAVE to open up Hotmail on your explorer to view your E-mail, I don't see the point of having the E-mail app then.
Messaging app is bad, honestly I like how you can stick it to a portion of your window, but it's very unreliable and it have put me in a lot of embarrassing situations because of that, I don't even know what the bugs are but it's just trying to fight you, it often randomly erases my message or stops responding to my "Enter" button because all of a sudden, it loses connection, it resets connection when you minimize it and takes a while to re-connect, this drives me insane, finally, you can't send messages to offline, or "appearing offline" contacts, which is also frustrating, my friend talks to me but I can't reply because he is appearing offline - hell I can't even notify him, I have to call him from my phone to tell him that
Music app is bad, it is very complex and very user-unfriendly, their way of creating playlists is bad, I don't even know how it works yet but every time I try to listen to music I encounter a bug or at least bad experience, the controls are pretty much hidden, I don't see and volume controls, well this thing is probably made for a tablet, which SHOULD be easier to use, but windows media player is waaay much more organized, it was easier to use and it was friendly, the music app is pointless.
Let's be a little bit positive, search is not bad, it's fast and clean.
To sum it up, (almost?) all apps have missing features, hidden controls, or even bugs, now that we're in the release candidate, it should have been much more polished, I honestly have no reason to keep using windows 8 other than Visual Studio 2012 supporting the graphics debugging, in Windows 7 it was very limited and had no shader debugging available, but EVEN THAT will soon be gone - Microsoft said that the express edition will only allow creation of metro apps - what the hell? again, this is bad.
I wouldn't recommend anyone to get windows 8 unless you need graphics debugging of visual studio, because everything else is a mess, also forgot to mention, although the metro thing looks like a layer, Microsoft claims that it's not, I remember that being said on their "build conference", but from my experience, I found it completely separate from the desktop, it looks like you have 2 different OS's running, which is also unacceptable.
