I'm with you
I despise Metro. I've found ubitmenu does a great job integrating the old menu system with the ribbon on Office 2007 and 2010. It's free for personal use, but if you use more than one profile (user account), it only works in the one it's installed in. I find myself going back and forth between them. It's simply a tab on the ribbon.
As for the ribbon on W8's Explorer, it's actually useful. I wish I had more time to play with it (going to school for a career change). This is one of the things I didn't like about the Metro-disablers in DP; they also disabled the Explorer ribbon and other new things I liked.
I'm hoping that if MS insists on foisting this hideousity on the Desktop that some third parties come up with a way to disable it while keeping the good things about W8.
