[xkaydet65]

I use Windows 7 on my laptop. I have never had a problem. It’s fast and it’s a helluva lot easier to do prep for my teaching than it would be on my tablet or droid phone. I don’t see anyone claiming Apple PCs and Laptops are doomed. Tell Microsoft to fine tune Windows 7. Basically it works fine.

[adorno]

Tell Microsoft to fine tune Windows 7.

Basically, that's what Microsoft did with Windows 7, and now it's Windows 8. The fact is that, Windows 7 is the underlying OS with Windows 8, just fine-tuned, and now with 2 faces, one of them being the "metro UI" and the other being the traditional desktop look. You don't have to use the Start screen, and can go to the traditional desktop, where everything will be as familiar as in Windows 8. Except that, Windows 8 works a lot faster then 7.

[publius911]

Tell Microsoft to fine tune Windows 7. Basically it works fine.

You'd think that MS had learned their lesson with Vista, which I swore I would never buy (and never did.)

I would rather switch than even think about Win8.
Ever.

I want no close relationship for the flighty have-to-have-the trendiest gadget crowd in any form.

Make Win 7 stable, fix all the bugs regardless of how obscure and I will use it forever. Don't know if I will live to see a 128-bit OS.

Hell, I would be happy with an interpreted BASIC OS, only 1000 times faster