Last night I finally figured out why Microsoft ruined Server 2012 with the terrible Metro interface.

If there is anywhere a touch-based interface intended a phone or a tablet doesn’t belong, it’s on an enterprise-class server.

So why do it?

It’s because the server product is 99% the same as the desktop OS. If they hadn’t burdened Server 2012 with the horrendous Metro atrocity, people like me could take Server 2012, remove the server bits and turn it into a good desktop OS. (Many people actually did this with Server 2008 during the Vista debacle.)

So a company is so dumb that they’d ruin their server product to sell a few more tablets. Sure, makes sense to me.