The drive for this first release is clear. This isn’t a showcase of the new features to you and I, this is the starter course for many months of development work from partners and application designers. Many of the new and exciting features which interest the users are missing from this release and there is far more emphasis on getting the under-the-bonnet revamping out there to the people writing the software for it.
You can check out a great look at the next version of Windows over at Bit-Tech.