[ziravan]

My computer crashed and I needed a quick replacement so bought a cheap laptop with Windows 8. I absolutely despise taking familiar landscapes away from me to “force” me to adopt the new design (yahoo mail take note).

Windows 8 is New Coke.

If I wanted over-sugared, watered down pepsi, I would have bought a pepsi, let some ice melt in it, and put a few packs of sugar in it.

And. If I wanted an operating system that’s impossible to work on, I wouldn’t have bought a windows system. Microsoft has never held a claim to technical superiority. Their major market benefit is familiarity. When you blow off the very reason why your customers choose you, it can’t be very surprising that the result is lower usage.

Windows 8 is garbage. It doesn’t matter what new-fangled crap they put in it if it’s so damn impossible to navigate.

Windows 8 is garbage.

[Cvengr]

Windows 8, the JC Penneys of Operating Systems.

[oh8eleven]

I absolutely despise taking familiar landscapes away from me to “force” me to adopt the new design
Download and install Classic Shell - it's free. You'll (almost) never know Win 8 is your OS.

[for-q-clinton]

Just buy start8 from stardock for $5 and you get the start button back.