In reply to felt:
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> I've used Windows 3, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP and 7 and haven't noticed a blind bit of difference, to be perfectly honest.
I used to think exactly the same, until I bought a new laptop with Win 8.
The best way of comparing it to what's gone before, is saying it's like buying a new car where the steering wheel has been replaced with a joystick... the indicators are operated by waving your hands at the corners of the windscreen... the volume control to the stereo also starts up the satnav... to turn the engine off, you have to go into the glove box. Etc etc
My dislike of this OS isn't down to some geeky nit-picking, it's because it incorporates so many new and radical features at once (virtually all of them hinder proper work) it's impossible to use.
If W8 is so good, why are so many software companies offering 'fixes'?
After 3months, I gave up and bought a new W7 laptop a shop had hiding in their backroom cupboard.