I think the big question for MS users continues to be platform stability. How many of us have found ourselves reloading our Windows machines as they get slower and slower due to exposure to the internet? Over the period of two years my MacBook has gotten slower as well. It takes almost 21 secs, cold iron to fully functional, where it used to take 16 seconds.
A suggestion. Change out your HD for an SSD. Then your boot will be back to 15 seconds. I have a macbook pro, and it boots in 11 seconds, current version and I have 3 add-ons in the bootup sequence.
W8 was tested (according to Msoft) and was found to be immune to 85% of the viruses/hacks that W7 was not, so it’s an improvement, but 15% is still a significant exposure.
ALready I have noticed on both W7 and W8 the “install wars” where dueling software companies try to takeover/disable other vendors’ SW. For example, now when I start Lynx (Microsof’ts webex), the Webex app has installed a hack that modifies the Lynx screen to add a tab that says “Start Webex”!
Kind of like the browser wars that kept messing with default browser/setup info.
Face it, Msoft is the trailer trash of IT