Windows 8 U-Turn

Problems dogging the Windows 8 operating system since its release last year have gone from bad to worse. Lackluster sales of the new system and its inability to compete in the walled garden environment  of the trendy app store in the way that Apple do so perfectly and upon which Google seems to be thriving have cost Microsoft dearly over the past year.
Metro as it began and now just an uninspiring Windows 8 was supposed to have placed Microsoft`s operating system onto tablets and touch screens everywhere but instead has just alienated the core user, the business client. Now Microsoft are scrambling to undo the damage by reinstating features such as the start button and enabling the Explorer interface to be configured at install instead of the tile screen.
Since the earliest days of .net when I first saw the managed environments that were being used at the time on the Pocket PC and that later became the virtual machine of the .net framework I have been keen to see Windows running on non PC platforms because I know it would be great if done right. Windows 8 however wasn't done right and the attempt to turn Windows into competition for IOS and Android at he same time was a poorly thought out disaster.
The only way Microsoft will redeem themselves is to go back to providing a full multi-tasking operating system that can run any .Net based application on any machine with a Microsoft OS. I guess that as opposed to three years ago, more than 50% of my day is spent on non Microsoft systems because Apple and Google have made my user experience seamless and simple. I don`t use my Windows tablet or my Windows phone because they are too different to my PC.
So, here Iam. a staunch supporter of Microsoft, editing my blog on my Macbook-Air and using my iPad and iPhone through a network provided by my Android based LG-400.
When I write code for MS systems now I use Virtual Box to run Windows on my Mac because the Air`s battery life is so much better than any tablet or Windows laptop and the integration across apple systems, to quote Apple themselves, "just works"
Microsoft have rested too long on their laurels and look to be too old and broke down to compete unless someone in the company gets a jolt of caffeine real soon! Shame on you guys.