So when we *finally* get to the login screen, we are greeted with...the same old crap that we had before, just redesigned a little bit. Some change.

As previously mentioned, the upgrade assistant BS remains around, probably just so it can display this message. Frankly, there are better ways to go about this.

Here is the desktop. Unsurprisingly, absolutely nothing has changed.

So, what has been updated? Well, the Action Center got a bit of a makeover. It now displays a total number of unread messages in the taskbar icon, and a few extra options are present. Not really necessary, but useful I suppose.

The start menu is still a pile of completely bastardized bullshit, but at least now the list of programs is displayed prominently.

I still have a major problem with the "live tiles" wasting as much space as they do. It seems as though it is now possible to "name" tile "groups" as well. What the hell is the point, anyways? Any sensible person would eradicate them anyways. And even if you get rid of them, it still takes up as much space as it does now...so you're left with a big rectangle with 60% of it blank! Awesome job on the quality control, Microsoft.

They also seem to have changed some of the "sidebar" options. No longer do they display text labels. To get these, you have to click on the "hamburger". What a mess. Seriously, I fail to even comprehend how this was even considered beyond a casual discussion!
"Hamburger menus" as they are called are a mobile device invention. Some complete dumbass made the irrefutably idiotic decision to bring them to the desktop in the name of simplifying things. Well, what they failed to realize was that next to no one on the desktop side has a touch screen...so what the hell is the user supposed to do? Doesn't look like a button to me!

Ugh. This is what you get when you let apes design things, I suppose. The hamburger menu isn't even necessary here either. Mouse over the icons, show a tooltip, done. No need for all that bullshit that violates every user interface design principle in the book.