I’m a power user and use 2 monster monitors. The whole idea of getting lots of screen real estate was to be able to have several resizable windows open and visible simultaneously.
The new Windows 8 apps that will only operate full-screen (or that weird feature where you can create 4 sub-fullscreens) would make it impossible to use my machine for what I want it to do. In fact, on the largest monitor, full screen just looks ridiculous, you can’t even look at the whole window and follow your workflow.
Microsoft’s endgame seems to be to get the PC user integrated into the smartphone/tablet closed world of “apps,” which must be bought only from the company controlling a closed “app store” ecosystem (MS probably has iTunes envy :)
People who want to be productive, though, they don’t count.
They’re not usefull mass-market sheep for the suits at MS who are panicking because they missed the captive app store train when it was leaving the station.
Here’s a great evaluation of why Win 8 is so bad for productivity
As John Dvorak put it “Has Microsoft developed a hatred for productivity?”