I’m gonna put cva66snipe in the ‘NO’ column for a Winders 8 upgrade - LOL!
I'm at two weeks now still trying to navigate through WINDERS 8. XP only took me about a night to do most configuring. WINDERS 8 OTOH has been a total nightmare with no rhyme or reason as to layout or settings locations. So far most functions require several more steps to complete. The Font on most of the boxes like File Explorer {what Idiot thought that mess up I'll never know} is hard to see and navigate as well.
I'm a typical user with no advanced tech knowledge, no computer courses, etc. That said I have always been able to straighten out my own programing, files, setting issues, or hardware issues by myself. For all the frustration I could have put a Penguin in one of my older boxes and saved the price of a new one. The main problem with MS is they need an affordable competitor to keep them in line and stop their where else can you go arrogance.