And I'll add that it drove me nuts to see random, popcorn-like activity amongst the tiles.

I kept trying to find "control panel" to add a second monitor, for example, but one of those tiles spontaneously showed me a video of an fscking carnival in Rio!

Then, another flashed a bikini babe in Miami.

Then, another flashed a severe weather warning on another continent...

It was like being in the control room of a news station! Pretty like a Christmas tree or fireworks, but *first I have to help my girlfriend set up her computer to write her dissertation."

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes you don't want a thousand, you only want one or two.

I actually like this. By removing the tree structure of the traditional menu, you allow the machine to do it's best to populate the screen with tiles it predicts are useful. Instead of forcing everything into a specific box, let the OS conform to the users history.

This was a sizeable failure when they hid menu items in Office based on predictions on what the user wanted.

What? It never did that when I used it.

Sorry forgot to mention that idea is a hypothetical use case.