Okay, Windows 8 is not /bad/. It's new and it's experimental, don't like it? Use 7. Like both 7 and 8? Try dual booting and see which one you would like more. There is nothing wrong that MS did; they're experimenting and they are ironing out those bugs in Windows Blue/8.1. I personally like it; and I don't even have a touch screen and I'm using a game PC. The amount of FPS improvement I got was surprising, but I did also upgrade my computer but it was a noticable difference, and I know at least some of it was from the OS. And the tablet transition? To be honest most of the changes can really be ignored, Windows 7 is under the shell and usable, and some of the things like booting to the metro mode is meh, but you can get a app. And to be honest; I didn't really use the start menu. I like Metro because it looks somewhat pretty, and allows a good bit of functionality now that certain windows now run in the background way better. I'm really rambling, but Windows 8 is not bad. It's an experiment. Also I love the boot speed, it's pretty much from the click of your computer start button and around 20 seconds later you're in. And this is not on a SSD, I wonder how fast it would be on an SSD?