The other day I saw the interview with Julie Larsen-Green, the new head of the Windows group and the replacement for Steven Sinofsky.

From the buzz around this new appointment it appears that she may be being groomed to replace Steve Ballmer. In a word, I hope so, since she is far more accessible as a business leader than Sinofsy ever was and this characteristic is probably what made her a natural fit as his replacement.

However, when asked about the low number surrounding the Windows 8 Modern UI, she seemed to attempt to dodge the question since she knew what people wanted to hear was the concern over the Start menu button.

Personally, as a senior software engineer I am in complete agreement with the overall technical community; that the Modern UI should have been either part of a separate OS for mobile devices or an extension module for the existing Windows 8 OS.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has a terrible tendency to throw the "baby out with the bath water" every time they develop a new technology.

Similar concerns can be seen with the latest Visual Studio 2012/2013 interfaces, which are quite unnecessary given the maturity of the VS 2010 interface and poorly designed as it regards eye comfort.

These major complaints concerning the two mainstays of the Windows Platform have yet to be addressed concretely by Microsoft since they have gotten themselves into a terrible corner over their promotion of the Modern UI. However, in all fairness, Microsoft is attempting to keep up with a relatively ignorant generation of new developers who are seemingly wedded to their gadgets while technical media outlets keep on insisting that we are in a post-pc world. This combination of intractable, sociological forces are major factors in the complaints surrounding the Microsoft technologies and they won't be addressed until a new set of people are forced to address the inevitable results that will be apparent towards a user interface that has no business being implemented for serious work with computer technologies.

I believe that Ms. Larsen, from what I saw of her in the interview, will eventually be more open to the changes that the professional technical community is seeking once she understands that concentrating on such matters does not mean giving up on a very unique and quality interface design that rightly belongs on smart devices... but on smart devices only with an option for the desktop if that is what a user prefers...