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Remember teaching PCs back in 1998 or 1999 and realizing that Microsoft hearts or soltaire was an excellent way to teach retired people to use the mouse.

The games were familiar and fun helped them stop clutching the mouse like it was, -I don't know, something that was trying to escape.

Didn't know until now that it was purpose-built for teaching.

They should have created a game to teach Windows 8 interface
I think they assumed people would embrace the Metro UI... cos the windows metro interface was battle tested (windows phone, zune, media center) and most importantly, it was an award winning interface.

I also think they forgot or underestimated the most important factor which influences the feeling of ease or neural fluency - familiarity.

They've learned their lesson as instant Familiarity is a chief goal behind windows 10.

Anecdotally, they failed. I'm still on 7 because 10 just introduced a slew of unfamiliar UI styling while hiding or removing any mechanism to make it stop...
They've made some nice improvements with docking multiple applications, plus multiple desktops. So you can have on for work and another for play.

I'm not a fan of the new Start Menu, but with pinned shortcuts to the task bar I don't see it very often.

Maybe they should bring back Inkball? I had too much fun with that even without touchscreen...
They did, it was called 'Windows 8'.
> the Microsoft version Minesweeper was introduced to Windows 3.1—not to demonstrate that Windows was an adept gaming operating system, but to make the idea of left and right clicking second nature for Windows users

It took me all the way to Windows XP to learn that you can right-click in minesweeper. I showed it to a friend, and he told me that doing that was cheating. No one in my family knew about it either.

So my take is that they could have made the concept clearer.

I know a handful of competative gamers, some of whom who would use Minsweeper to 'warm up' before LANs to get their eye in, and keep their mousing muscles loose between matches.
Well, that and smashing Adderall obviously.
Moms everywhere love these. When I moved my mom to Linux, I threw gnome-games on there. A week later, she calls and says she had no idea there were that many varieties of solitare.
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