> It also seems too concentrated on "security" and "safe code" and nothing else, making me believe that this is eventually going to be an OS where only "trusted" (read: Microsoft-approved) programs are allowed to run.

The mind of a fanboy:

Microsoft writes unsafe code => Microsoft is evil and stupid.
Microsoft writes safe code => Microsoft is evil and stupid.

Now tell us: Seeing as how Windows' one single strength over other OSes is the huge amount of third-party software available only for Windows, that people rely on, why exactly would they want to kill all that off?