rick, easy is in the eye of the beholder.
"The Windows 8 interface takes things a step further towards EASY and CONVENIENT. It does not require unlearning anything, nor does it require learning totally new things that take more work."
It requires unlearning the now-absent Start button. It requires learning where those functions that used to be on the Start button have been moved to. It requires learning hot spots, hidden menus, and other interface features that weren't present in previous versions. It requires learning new methods of closing some apps and of shutting the computer off. It requires learning to manage screen real estate differently for new apps can't be resized or tiled to make more than two visible, apps that don't have the accustomed Minimize, Maximize, or Close buttons, or size-adjusting frames.
Again, these won't be as much of a problem for IT workers as for day-to-day computer users. And there's a difference between knowing something in your head and retraining your reflexes. I've been running W7 for a couple of years, but when I want to log off or reboot, I still aim for the Shutdown button and not the little triangle beside it. I -know- that in W7 the Shutdown button does a complete shutdown without going to the menu first, but years of XP habit have me aiming for the much larger target I've been indoctrinated to use. It doesn't help that the majority of machines I support are still XP systems, and that rebooting multiple XP systems throughout the day reinforces the old behavior more than the less frequent W7 reboots I perform.
