[sigzero]

From what I have seen and played with on Windows 8...sucks. Might be Windows 7 is the best for a long time.

[arfan]

We've been doing Win 8 testing for some time here at work.

The opinion of my co-workers and I is that the new Metro interface only makes sense on a tablet/phone environment, or if laptops start shipping with touchscreens. Just wait till a non-touchscreen device user goes to restart, and can't find how to do it anymore!

The de-Metro'ed version of Win 8 looks and functions just like Win 7 - so why bother implementing Win 8?

Win 8 is just an extention of MS's marketing trick of 'if the user runs it at home, they will want to run it at work'.

That strategy worked so well for them (cough, cough) that they had to extend XP support.........

[Mannaggia l'America]

From what I have seen and played with on Windows 8...sucks. Might be Windows 7 is the best for a long time.

Most people only have access to Windows 8 on a desktop or laptop, without a touch screen. The interface lends itself better to touch screens, where I think it could do well.

[RayChuang88]

I think you need to wait for the “feature complete” beta of Windows 8 due in early February 2012 before making that judgement. The version given out to developers some months ago is still very feature-incomplete.