But that's hardly making a significant point now is it - I mean does anyone disagree on that? Nope.
On DVDs I agree but XBMC sucks at recording TV and I'm a big fan of MC (with MediaBrowser which looks as good as XBMC anyway). I actually agree with their reasoning though as I understand very few users use it. I fear it's on the way out..
Yup, most people aren't aware of 'backup' as a concept period - even less so that Windows offers such facilities. The rest of us probably use a paid for or free imaging/backup app-lication.
Agree here too - nearest I got to them is the method you described or jumplists the taskbar which are still there.
Outside of MUI though? I love the multi-monitor support, am baffled by people want 7's bereft-of-any-buttons explorer back, like the new task manager and so on. I don't even miss glass - thought I would. Not that I disagree on the whole - I just don't think it's "THAT broken for me" because really it isn't, and even if it was I could easily change things to avoid MUI altogether.
Shaithis makes a fair point - all the angst is against the somewhat insignificant stuff - and that's a problem because if MS are convinced that fixing those small things will cause people to down pitchforks and have a sing song they're very wrong. I'd rather they completed the MUI control panels, fixed app closing, sorted out splitting or get into the much harder task of answering how apps are no longer Windows but rather just part of a split screen. That latter point worries me more - there's already a 3rd party solution effectively handling this and so MS must be aware of it. Let's face it a full screen start menu and the lack of the button to launch it are side issues - it's more fundamentally how applications work, dock, close or switch that's the issue on the desktop. The concept's there - I like the style personally, I like that they're designed to be ultra responsive, can be suspended, big, bold and modern looking I just don't like how I manipulate them on the desktop as much as I do on the tablet.
It is utterly weird that 'boot to desktop' is an issue though - because the first thing I do is launch an app(lication) which is exactly what the start screen does (and handily tells you some other information with live tiles - not a bad concept either and also open to improvement). But hey, it's big, in your face UI and that's controversial as you say..