[sjm_888]

My old Win XP machine with 1 Gb of RAM is faster than my new hotter machine with 4 Gb of RAM. That should tell you something.

It tells me something alright.

[kiryandil]

It should tell you that Win 8/8.1 is a piece of crap, and possibly that I might be a trifle busy with real life.

BTW - I have 6 machines running that do various things for me, with various OSes.

I tend to stick to the older operating systems because I don't feel the need to splash out on the new crap Win OSes that the children are producing. The Microsofties rightly "relieved" the weenie responsible for Win 8 of command.

Mostly shifting to Linux, for the ease of maintenance. It's hard to convince my Windows users to give up their MS security blanket, though...