I put Win8 on my son’s 3.5 y/o Dell, which he gave me for Christmas. The old desktop is still there, and some programs run both as apps and as programs. I have to decide how I want files to open, but once set, it is set. I get to God mode from the tiles, but it still does everything the same way. I need to download PDF reader as a program because I can’t print from the app.