Re: Does that mean we can now drop the crappy Win10 interface?
"And now that Windows Phone is very certainly dead, the whole underlying premise of the tiles interface (which was sort of OK on a phone actually, different, but OK) now disappears."
Except it doesn't, because Windows 10 is a huge chunk of the touchscreen laptop/tablet hybrid market, and actually does pretty well in it. And the tiles thing actually works rather well for touchscreen, in a way that the 'traditional' windows interface does not.
Like it or not (and like most keyboard and mouse guys, i'm in the latter camp), the tiles are probably here to stay.