content: Agreed. Windows 95 had a desktop, mimicking a real physical desktop, with documents on it. Its buttons looked like real physical buttons. Skeuomorphy was an excellent idea.  Ever since then, they have chosen fashion over usability. After all, a new OS has to look "fresh", doesn't it? Initially, this was fine, sure, no one asked for title bar gradients and more colourful close/minimize/maximize buttons, but no one was bothered by them either. But things got worse:  valuable CPU time was wasted on silly animations, useful features were removed or hidden (desktop, start menu, keyboard-only-operability, ...), perfectly good programs replaced by pathetic "apps". And now it has come to this. They no longer want to be in the honourable business of selling software, they want to be in the user-is-the-product spying/advertising business.