I'd say they're making it exactly like Android. The people hub and the "me" tile were the best parts, followed by the pictures hub (to me, anyway), and now they are all effectively ruined
I turned Cortana off, as well as the
terrible Facebook app (I left it installed, because it has to be there, as you know, but I prevented it from running in the background, so now I don't get Facebook notifications) and the notifications center is meh at best (we had live tiles for that).
I don't mind them adding stuff, but removing stuff is just silly. I'll wait till the end of the year and then see if I stick to this or go back to Apple.
Also, the notifications center doesn't understand when the screen is rotated, so when you are in landscape mode, it slides from the side instead from the top
Really, ffs
The good thing I did find is that the HTML5 version of Grooveshark site now skips to the next song in the queue when the screen is locked, but I really will rarely need that, anyway.
The problem with the update is that they removed a lot of functionality, and there is no justification for that (also, maintaining Facebook integration now has to be done in two places - in the app and in the OS that uses the app). I can't understand how the Facebook application is sooo terrible.
Oh well, rant over. Hopefully they put the things back as they were, otherwise, this is just another app launcher and nothing else, and for that, I might as well use Apple again.