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Nothing beats a good old-fashioned desktop.

I ain't changing for none of ya'll!

I’m with ya! I have an old desktop running XP and Office 2003, and am holding on to it like grim death.

I spend most of Internet time on my desktop. If I go out and want to go on-line I take the old laptop. I like Screens I can see. I like my own storage which I can back up non dependent on corporate Cloud. I like a cell phone that actually fits inside my shirt pocket. I've used WINDOWS OS since W/98 and before that Web TV. I bought the ME upgrade for 09/2 and was immediately sorry I did and uninstalled it. I waited on XP and it has been a steady reliable work horse no complaints with it. MS got it right. It seems when MS gets one right they pull out all stops making darn sure their next release is all wrong.

I've done one reformat total on a combined three computers running XP. I am not buying W-8 I don't care how their corporate Nerds window dress it and call it great. I understand VISTA was another pathetic Boo Boo MS would not own up to as is W-8.

Personally I'd rather shell out up to $125 for a re-licensing and support of XP. This isn't Microsoft bashing. It is simply saying their R&D department doesn't listen to users. I'm still on 52kps dial up and where I live and high speed is still likely a decade off. I use the laptop to download larger files when I go where high speed is accessible. Windows has focused it's entire recent OS products on high speed availability thus abandoning a lot of long time customers in the process.