Windows 8 fall down and go boom.
This is what happens when VMWare decides to be a tool and not mount drives properly.

As you can clearly see Microsoft actually made the blue screen of death simpler. No more bright freaking blue. I guess you could call it the "blue screen of simplicity" now.
One odd thing I've noticed on a few other machines, is that parts of the text actually look blocky, almost as if they're being stretched and it's using some kind of combo image/text to display these.

Windows recovered from a serious error? Naw, really?

Most of the dialog boxes now display this modal thing which takes up the entire horizontal length of the display and then proceeds to waste half that space.

Other dialog boxes have been Metrofied in a different way.

Upon trying to open a file, for which the application doesn't exist on the main computer, this monotonic box appears with a list of options.
There are no controls on this message box, so visibly there is no way to close it except for taking an option, which might not be the option you want. Alt+F4 and Ctrl+W both fail to close it as well; the trick here is to click outside the box.