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We have PC's in this house with XP, W7, and W8. I've had to do work on all three. I would take XP any day over the others, but W7 is tolerable.

W8 is fustercluck. It seems that every new MS OS closes the window (no pun intended) to customizing your PC for your own preferences. Things get moved around, ostensibly to make things "easier", but it looks like they just bury them deeper and that makes them harder.

I like the idea of a virtual desktop and treat my PC as such. I start with a clean desktop (with a nice wallpaper), just the Recycle Bin on it. I then either open apps or folders (Windows Explorer, etc.) from the Start menu or the Quickstart bar, where I keep my most commonly used apps - but not too many as to make it too crowded and therefor useless).

I don't have a smart-phone (I have no use for one - just a "regular" phone for me), so I don't care that W8 looks like a cellphone. I don't even like the look of it, TBH.

I suspect I'll be moving on to the PS4 when it comes out, as I can do almost everything there that I do on this (XP) PC, and it will be much cheaper than buying a whole new PC, along with all the setup it takes (ripping out all the bloatware and installing my own apps). What I can't do on the PS4, I'll suck it up and use my wife's laptop.

W8 is fustercluck. It seems that every new MS OS closes the window (no pun intended) to customizing your PC for your own preferences. Things get moved around, ostensibly to make things "easier", but it looks like they just bury them deeper and that makes them harder.

I use Windows 8, on three different PCs at home, and I can honestly say that, I don't see the problems you suggest at all. I can customize Windows 8 exactly the way I did with Windows 7, except that now, I can customize it a lot easier with the use of the Start screen, which for me, is actually a lot better than the old desktop. I still use the old desktop with Windows 8, and with absolutely no problems.

Things get moved around, ostensibly to make things "easier", but it looks like they just bury them deeper and that makes them harder.

Totally agree. When I first started using Windows 8, it was like having my old pc chewed up like a jigsaw puzzle and I had to put it back together -- not like it was, but in a different way, so that it would work. :( It works, but it took time I could have spent learning a foreign language.