If you've used Office 2010 you'll instantly know what I'm talking about but for those of you that don't here's a pic to illustrate what the new Win8 Explorer looks like.
The reason for this change is that through their annonymous usage statistics they found out that most of the commands used in Explorer are file management commands so they wanted to optimize access to these.
If you're worrying that it'll squish the window too much then don't, in fact it actually uses less space an allows more file space since the status bar has been reduced back down to one line and when needed details appear in a bar to the right now.
Full articles here
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20098807-1/microsoft-details-explorer-layout-for-windows-8/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/26/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx
As for me? Well I don't really care since I'll still be using good old right-click for the simple reason that it's still faster because it doesn't require additional mouse movement.
So what do the rest of you think?

The reason for this change is that through their annonymous usage statistics they found out that most of the commands used in Explorer are file management commands so they wanted to optimize access to these.

If you're worrying that it'll squish the window too much then don't, in fact it actually uses less space an allows more file space since the status bar has been reduced back down to one line and when needed details appear in a bar to the right now.
Full articles here
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20098807-1/microsoft-details-explorer-layout-for-windows-8/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/26/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx
As for me? Well I don't really care since I'll still be using good old right-click for the simple reason that it's still faster because it doesn't require additional mouse movement.
So what do the rest of you think?