Count me as one of them - but I did switch my browser to FireFox.
Two options:
1. Buy an new computer.
2. Roll the dice and hope that your computer and ALL of its hardware is compatible with “crappy” win 8. And if it is, then be prepared to fork out $120 per computer.
And by the way, your old programs may not natively run under win 8. So, you'll have to set up a Virtual XP PC which may or may not work reliably.
I just gave my old laptop with XP on it to my sister Sunday as she does not have one. She immediately switched over to FireFox and says its working fine but she’s going to go get the Windows 7 disk this week and load it up.