http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22714048
They do not listen, they just do not listen. Instead they weasel a bit, and still try to enforce that people finally should accept the way Microsoft wants them to like things.
Quote:
Microsoft has confirmed a Start button is returning to the desktop mode's taskbar of its Windows 8 operating system.
The lack of the facility - which had been in every previous version since Windows 95 - has been one of the most controversial aspects of the software.
However, it will not offer all the functionality previously associated with the feature.
Instead it will bring users to the recently-introduced "Metro" interface.
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Somebody really seems needing to take it upon him to take that Metro thing and push it very deeply in their lower bottom before they will consider to learn what the messages of customers try to tell them.
It's not good for business if a company does not offer what people want. It does not really get better if instead it tries to force them to accept what they do not want. Nobody can tell me that the massive drop in notebook and PC sales and producers' explicit refusal to produce W8-based hardware (which they make complaints by customers responsible for) is just because of booming tablets. Tablets do not replace PCs currently, not even notebooks. Microsoft's surface Pro, by all what I read on it, combines the worst of both tablets AND notebooks, another of these needless hybrids that fail in bringing two things together. The early sales numbers are not singing the hymn of enthusiasm, to put it mildly. It'S seems to be reasonably fast, but it is heavy, and overpriced, and reviewers find it to be too weak in battery performance.
With W8 and these latest hardware accidents, Microsoft displays a case of completely hopeless arrogance, imo. Maybe they just should skip on revolutionary hardware technology development by themselves. The number of major projects that they managed to sink over the past 20 years or so just demonstrates that they just cannot do it and do not know these acts. Designing a mouse, is one thing. Designing a new hardware architecture for a major computing device - that is something different. If you want to use Surface Pro as a notebook, buy a notebook instead. If you want to use it as a super-heavy tablet, better buy a tablet instead.