[Edward Teach]

W8 seems to boot faster than W7.
Also W8 comes with Hyper-V (if you have the horsepower to support it).
BTW you can also configure it to boot directly into a Hyper-V VM, and it will run as though it were your desktop OS.
Both my desktop and laptop are running W8 now and I have no issues with it. Metro annoyed me for about 20 min, until I figured out where everything was hiding. I’ve had no other issues with it.

[daniel1212]

I figured when I launched the setup.exe once Win8 downloaded, that the option that says CREATE DVD MEDIA or something, would be like Win 7 Ultimate where you could select x32 or x64 once you are ready to install from the DVDs. I didn’t think they still had separate Windows versions like this since Windows XP or Vista. That is likely in order to reduce bandwidth (if not the national debt), but that what someone thought best. As is no native DVD support without the 10.00 Media Center upgrade or 3rd party apps (with likely illegal codecs in US for free apps), etc. But thank God for what is does do and enables!

[catnipman]

“W8 seems to boot faster than W7.”

That’s because W8 isn’t really booting. It’s just pretending to boot, while under the hood its really just going into and out of hibernate mode.