Professor STEPHEN JACKSON (Botany, University of Wyoming): I think it like a "Twilight Zone" world, where a lot of what's familiar to us will disappear and climates that are completely unfamiliar to us will appear.
It is perhaps not surprising that Microsoft's retail users are slow to migrate from the familiar (PCs running Windows 7 and XP) to the unfamiliar (PCs running the radically different Metro interface, and a new product category in Surface).