On October 26th, 2012, Microsoft sprung Windows 8 on the world. A platform to unite all platforms. You would get the same experience on desktops, laptops, and most importantly tablets. Windows 8 was designed to be touch friendly and therefore tablet friendly. Of course, this rather left desktops and laptops – Microsoft’s bread and butter – in somewhat of a lurch. Sure could use a mouse and keyboard with Windows 8, but it wasn’t really designed for that. As a compromise, Microsoft included “Desktop view” which took new users back to the warm and fuzzy look of Windows 7 ...