I quite like the Metro UI and I think it will be a success for personal use. MS is taking a huge risk in completely rethinking how they want their users to interact with their operating system after serving up the same UI since 95. The tablet market is still expanding and MS can grab a big piece of that pie by providing a totally seamless transition from your Windows 8 PC to your Windows 8 tablet.
That said, I don't know that the Metro UI would fit into my own workflow at all. It's cool and it's concise, but I'm not its target audience.
MS has done some serious performance work here. It runs totally snappy on a mechanical (virtual) drive, 1GB memory, and a single core in VMWare Fusion. Seems to boot in about half the time that Windows 7 takes.
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