It has been a year and a couple of days since Microsoft held the biggest product launch in the history of the industry: Windows 8. The operating system was intended to be a bold step into a new era for Microsoft, giving it a strong foothold into a tablet market dominated by Apple and Google.Microsoft spent $1.8 billion on its Windows 8 campaign and saw a more than respectable $16 billion in revenue (100 million copies sold) from the operating system in its first six months. But for all that, the response to the launch has been characterized as tepid at best. There were complaints about the removal of the start button and other interface changes that catered to tablet users at the expense of the desktop experience that led Mat Honan to write in his article for Wired, that people "hate" it."They hate it because instead of unifying everything, Windows 8 is a fractured, bipolar experience," he wrote. "In its attempt to balance the dem
