[Windows RT General] glange65:
I really hate that I have to say it, but after anxiously waiting for my Surface RT, and dreaming of an Android-Free life. It only took a month to change my mind and abandon the RT.

And Microsoft did it to themselves...after spending a LOT of time in their help forums, it become clear to me that that a lot of people felt as I do. The real issue for me wasn't ARM or Store apps only..I fully expected that. I had no problem with a scaled down version of Office and I REALLY love the Metro interface.

However, it is the roadblocks, missing basic functions in apps, and other missteps that MS took. This is no where the complete list.

1. No support for POP3 email accounts..people don't always have choices

2. Can't send or reply emails for your Outlook.com aliases

3. Limited support for Outlook categories and other contact list info in the People app

4. No folder organization for IE favorites or import function. Why...when you have a full IE when started from Desktop mode. Why severely limit your functions just in Metro?

5. No music playlist or file sync/download between PC WMP and device. Not paying more for Xbox, don't and can't use streaming often. home group solution only works when home..this is a mobile device. I think they forgot.

6. Doesn't matter anyway, built in music players can't work with WMP playlists anyway.???

7. No direct USB connector or option for file transfers, back ups, etc. Almost every mobile device and platform has this in some form..I expect it.

8. Apps...I know it's early, but the Metro design guidelines are so easy, who know so many apps could be so ugly. I love Metro, these are so bad. Plus, apps from the big guns, like Ever note, aren't functioning well.

9. Still no tasks from Outlook. Not necessarily an RT issue, but after all this time, still can't sync my Outlook tasks and the web apps MS depends on for any sync (live mail, calendar, etc) are too simple and missing functionality. I certainly did not expect, nor should I, a full Outlook on the RT, but what we got in its place is way too basic to be usable.

10. The nightmare that is the Desktop. Everything is too small, very frustrating to work with. Two different interfaces.. It is confusing and makes no sense. Why didn't they just develop everything into Metro? 11. Finally to add insult to injury, the support website you are linked to from the HELP link in every settings menu is the wrong one. That's the full Windows 8 site, not the RT site as I and the forum moderator discovered last week.

Even in the name, MS calls it a PC, and it's got so much legacy design and function from the PC version, but it isn't a PC. its a mobile device that wasn't built with mobility in mind. Some of these are just annoying, some are problematic and most make you wonder if anyone knows what they're doing, as they make no logical sense

There is a lot to love. It wasn't all bad, just the walls I kept hitting piled up and left me for dead. With all it's headaches and nightmares, I can still do much more, much easier and more reliably with an iPhone or Android.

It's time to stop managing our tech, and expect that our tech will help manage our lives.

Thanks