Honestly, I didn't want to rag on anybody, but I'm kind of surprised a forum full of hackers managed to get so stuck. Alt+Tab is something I would expect everyone here to know, and it was literally the first shortcut I tried when I got confused on my first foray with Win8. But I suppose use of the keyboard to navigate anything may be a dying art.
What might only be a few moments of confusion for nerds is a brick wall to many other people.
Perhaps that's also something to do with what happened in Redmond. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Windows 8's UI mess is at least partially a product of letting a bunch of technology people get too far inside their own heads.
I utterly failed at helping my aunt figure out metro. I did use alt-tab. But there were multiple other points of failure.
It's been long enough that I don't remember specifics, but I was utterly baffled despite being experienced with keyboard navigation.
