Daring Fireball: Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad

Apple’s radical notion is that touchscreen personal computers should make severely different tradeoffs than traditional computers — and that you can’t design one system that does it all. Windows 8 is trying to have it all, and I don’t think that can be done. You can’t make something conceptually lightweight if it’s carrying 25 years of Windows baggage.

Yep. It's stunning that people don't get what Apple is doing. They tend to equate "getting it" with being a fanboy. Apple now finds this to be an entertaining thing to think about while counting money.