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@JoshRoss: I pretty much expected that.  If you assume that the phone is in effect running Windows RT, the windows 8 blog detailed a lot of extra hardware standards that had to be put in place to emulate x86 device enumeration at boot, so it was a safe bet that new phone would go down that route and obsolete all the existing phones.

Starting to wonder if they've forgotton about it.....

What model are they, if they're Crucial M4, make sure you have the latest 000F firmware, we had a lot of trouble with them before the update.

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if you right click the task bar and go to properties, there is a section marked multiple displays.  If you change the first option to 'Taskbar where window is open' that looks like it gets you your second point. For your third point, on the same dialog there is an option 'Taskbar Buttons', setting that to never combine should get you there, I think.

Just a word of warning, I've been playing with Storage Spaces using 3 x 16Gb USB Flash drives.

If you give SS to much hassle (plugging/unplugging) the drives vanish and win8 refuses to see them again, they show in device manager with driver loaded, but do not show up in device manager.

The only way I've found to recover them (as to re-use the drive, not get the data back) is put them in a down-level (Win7) machine and delete the reserved partition from the drive using diskpart.

@Sven Groot: I'm having a lot of trouble with Remote Desktop (non-metro) crashing, and sometimes when the PC comes out of sleep, the network does not come back; I have to disable/enable the connection for it to recover (Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller, MS driver)

33 minutes ago, Sven Groot wrote

Okay, in that case it's kind of stupid that they let you install MSSE.

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Agreed, the upgrade from 7 to 8 does delete it (I'm told), I kind of hoping they just haven't got all the App-Compat blacklists in place yet.

After my initial knee jerk reaction to the desktop I also decided to suck it and see and made it my only install on my home desktop and laptop last Friday.

So far as well as other than things already listed in this thread, things I found:

Hit targets are too small when there is not a hard edge to stop the mouse (multi-mon)  Works much better on single screen (i.e. laptop but still a pain with the track pad)

Short-cut keys, Know them, learn them, love them.

I find myself quite often clicking the IE short-cut when I really want the start menu, force of habit, round icon, left side of taskbar.

I find myself moving off the start menu hit target to click the huge start screen icon that appears, which promptly vanishes!

It's fast, especially on older hardware.  I rebuilt an old Pentium-D with it and it flies (removing the 9800GT and using the built in Intel card does cause it to have issues though)

After a few days, I'm finding I hardly ever go to the start screen, I've got to the point where pretty much everything I use is pinned to the task bar, and so far the list of apps isn't very inspiring and I don't find myself going back very often.

The back button (mouse) doesn't work the way I'd expect in the start screen.

Lack of plug-ins in Metro-IE is a big issue.  I tried using win8 machine plugged into my TV, the start screen looks great at that size, but for nearly all streaming sites (iPlayer etc) I ended up back at the desktop, which kind of spoils the effect.  Needs Kinect integration on the start screen!

When you have multi-mon clicking on the desktop background on a secondary monitor should hide the start-screen ALWAYS, not take you to the last used metro app.

So far I'm not hating it, not loving, mainly indifferent at the moment.