Congratulations to Microsoft for trying something new, but I’m missing what the tech folks are excited about. The user interface is awful.

There’s no logical sense of physical navigation — things just seem to fly off the screen and fly on, apparently from no where. This is bad — it means the user can’t keep the UI “stack” in their head, which makes each screen a challenge and surprise.

The controls aren’t obvious at all. A button that’s just a text-label is obviously tap-able because…?

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Microsoft, like the hardware manufactures, seems to have missed the point of touch. It’s not inherently intuitive. You have design to intuition.