“I find it frustrating to do anything serious with Win8, so it is just a web surfing/e-mail checking/game-playing toy.”
As someone else once described Win8, it’s a teenage girls telephone.
Even the commercials for Win8 presented it as a toy, something to play with.
If you’ve had any type of training to use a computer consider yourself lucky.
For those of use that haven’t, going from XP to Win8 is mind numbing.
If you want to do something, go to the app store and buy an app.
Read the fine print and it appears you give them permission to get into your computer any time they want. Just for updates don’t you know.
That is the interface, and i have about no use for it. But as you can see with ClassicShell,it is not that much different than W/7. Except for playing DVDs (legally) unless you have the $10 MediaCenter.
I bought W/8 looking to go to 64 bit due to wanting more memory, and bought it as an upgrade from XP for 29.00 (promo period), plus got the MediaCenter free, and you can legally remove it from one PC and install it on another (which before was only legal with Retail). So it was worth it, thank God, but i would recomend W/7 otherwise.