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Nowhere in his OP does Tony say it's too hard to learn something new. Nowhere does he make any of the claims you cite in your post.

He loaded Win8, looked at it, and didn't like it. He dug around under the hood, didn't see any significant differences from Win7 besides the Metro interface, and saw no need to proceed further. He expressed his opinion that in his (admittedly limited) experience Win8 only made sense on the tablet. He then closed with the sentence "I like windows, I just do not like win8 yet."

How does "just do not like" extrapolate to "afraid of change"?