Microsoft's new operating system for PCs and tablets, Windows 8, will have a drastic new look.
The Start menu you're used to is gone, replaced by a touch-friendly menu of tiles that houses all your apps and settings.
It's going to be incredibly jarring for people to use at first.
Tech pundit Chris Pirillo demonstrates that in a man-on-the-street video where he asks people to try Windows 8 for the first time. The results don't look good for Microsoft. Almost every person in the video is extremely confused by the new Windows 8 interface.
Does that mean Windows 8 is a flop?
Nope.
This is how you push innovation forward. It's going to be jarring and scary for novices. It's going to take time for people to learn the new menus. But they'll catch on.
Imagine giving someone who has never seen and iPhone or Android device before and asking them to use it. That person would be just as confused as the people are in the video below. As a friend on Twitter put it, "If every interface were designed by man-on-the-street committee we'd all still have Windows 3.1."
Take a look at Pirillo's video, which we first spotted on BGR:
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