John Gruber on getting developers to embrace Metro:
The message could be, more or less, “Windows 8 supports an incredibly wide range of hardware, and Metro runs everywhere. But our most advanced mobile hardware designs are Metro only.”
Transitions are never easy, just ask Apple, but Microsoft has to keep its attention focused on the prize ahead, not looking backwards.
If they don’t keep looking forward, they will be like the has been jock, always talking about how great they were “back in the day.” It doesn’t look good when a person degrades to this behavior, and is even worse when it happens to a company .