heatlesssun
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But it can.
What's standard now? Win8.1 right? I don't know about you guys, but I hated win8 the moment I got that stupid tiled environment and the only thing that has improved it has been learning how to make it boot to desktop. That one issue alone would have many folks wasting a bunch of time learning a new UI that does nothing at all for their productivity or creativity, in fact, it's a distraction by it's very design.
For desktop use, the recent 8.1 Update boots to the desktop when a mouse is detected automatically, this is no longer an issue. Modern apps, with the exception of the PDF viewer, are no longer set as defaults when a mouse is detected, you get the good old desktop apps. Windows never has had an in the box PDF viewer so even the modern PDF viewer might be an improvement over not seeing the document.
The current 8.1 Update experience even on the desktop especially with cheaper laptops and desktops is will still be better than XP era devices for many just because 8.1 is a heck of lot more efficient with current hardware.