Distributing an OS such as Windows 8, that could not perform a basic function such as configuring a POP email account that Windows 98SE was able to do was also another major short coming. The NSA influence was clearly seen with regard to the email provision in Windows 8 having to use their corporate proxy servers. The Simon Says Toy GUI is appalling being completely unintuitive to the principles of a Windows OS established by XeroxPARC research in the late 1970s.

If Windows 8 had booted to a C:\Simon_Says> Desktop - Y | Tablet - CTRL_ALT_DELETE

They may have been on to a winner..