You would think that it would be completely obvious how to shut down your computer, but Microsoft’s new Metro UI (or Windows 8 UI or whatever they want to call it now) obfuscates this and many other common features. Since the new Windows forces a “tablet” experience onto all users regardless of their platform, they must assume that most people will let their PCs enter sleep mode, as most tablets do.

Earlier beta versions of Windows 8 included the familiar Start button, so it was rather easy to figure out how to shut down your PC just by doing that. Alas, there is no more Start button (even in Desktop mode), so most people will not be able to figure out how to shut down their shiny new Windows 8-based computers.