Timely, given all the bad Microsoft press yesterday stemming from Paul Thurrott'...

skeletonjelly · on Feb 10, 2014

Judging by the official photo of the alien suit in Gates' office, I don't think this was planned on a whim.

GFischer · on Feb 11, 2014

I hadn't read that, thanks for pointing it up. Was it discussed here on HN?

Found the original link:

http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/what-heck-happening-window...

I don't think Bill timed it on purpose :) and it won't change most people's perception of the latest Windows (I hate it too, and respect Bill Gates a lot).