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I think Windows 8 is going to be train wreck. I can’t see business adopting this without undergoing some painful reworking of procedures and training.

This. Win 8 is cartoonish crap. In a word: "non-professional"

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This. Win 8 is cartoonish crap. In a word: "non-professional"

Disagree. And, I'm a tech professional.

Win 8 is different, but, not drastically different. It just "looks different", with the underlying code, and most of the applications remaining intact.

It just takes a little getting used to, but, once you do, it'll be hard going back to the older UI for Windows. Windows 8 actually simplifies things, believe it or not.