There's some new features that are cool. The primary storage deduplication feature is nice for some use cases. I love it on my backup server - it's backing up the same data again and again for the most part so this allows me to have a far larger retention period. I could only retain a few weeks of daily backups before, now I'm in the months. Depending on what your data looks like this could save you a lot of space, which is at a premium when you're using SSD's and things. I'm sure there's plenty of others. I'm remotely interested in playing with Folder Redirection, Roaming Profiles, etc. They always make changes (or improvements as our Microsoft evangelist buddies here will assure us) and I'm remotely curious if there's anything good here. I have a VDI deployment in my lab and I toy around with the technologies for keeping that and my laptop in sync when I actually make time to play with Microsoft crap. I'm sure there's plenty of new stuff here, some of it actually worthwhile. But when the average user doesn't even need most any of these capabilities 90% of the time and is happy using a tablet for their content browsing it's not a really big selling feature. The devices Microsoft is losing computing device market share to can't do nearly as much as they can. But they're still losing because those companies made it easier and more convenient for the "dumb end user" and most of them don't need most of this crap.Ignoratio Elenchi said:
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There really isn't a reason to unless you really like the metro interface. Their isn't a reason to whine and complain about how terrible it is either.
um.....wat?
