It's funny, the overwhelming number of people who bitch about Windows 8 "sucking" never looked at or tried it -- they're just repeating what their ignorant friends are saying or what they're reading on the chat boards.
I'll be the first to say Microsoft screwed the pooch big time mixing user interface metaphor's, however it's easy to get Windows 8 to boot to desktop and look/feel like Windows 7 -- only much, much faster.
I wouldn't go back to that slow-ass Windows 7 if you paid me.
I’ve got a Windows 8 computer. I loaded Classic Shell and did some research on the internet to find out how to automatically log on without typing in my password every time I start my home computer. Windows 8, with modifications, is bearable.
So...why should I need to do that crap? Windows 7 already works fine for me, without modifications. In what sense did MS not take a good interface and make it worse?
As for slow ass Windows 7: many of us don’t do games. For surfing the Internet, typing reports or reviewing documents, 7 is more than fast enough.
Would it really have been that hard for MS to figure out than a lot of folks were HAPPY with XP & 7, and to at least give them a choice on initial startup on which interface they wanted? They could even have a section in the start menu - and getting rid of that was REALLY stupid - that allowed those who wanted no start button to choose THAT as an option.