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After 2 months of having a worthless computer, I finally broke down and bought my first IPad.

I highly doubt the veracity of your statement. If you were really a fan of Windows, then there is really nothing that was done with Windows 8 that could change your mind about it. Windows 8 is really Windows 7, but with many improvements and updates. If your complaint is about the new UI, then that's really nothing go complain about, since, all you need to do to get back into the "old" Windows 7 desktop, is to click on any of the older applications, which brings you into that older desktop interface. From there on, it's Windows 7, but with many improvements and greater speed. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to opt to get a simple iPad in lieu of a full-fledged OS in a full-fledged PC. In fact, even the Surface tablets and the tablets offered by the MS OEMs that use Windows 8, are many times better than any iPad, mini or regular.

Methinks that your just an Apple cultists that took the opportunity to bash MS, while touting your preference for Apple, and that switch from Windows is just a simple lie. But, even if you did switch to an iPad, there is nothing to be gained by that at all. Heck, even the Android tablets are better than the iPads.

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“Me thinks that your just an Apple cultists that took the opportunity to bash MS.”

Nope. The IPad I bought a few months ago is the first major Apple product I’ve owned. Even my cell phone is a Galaxy 3S w/ Android. I’ve never owned an IPhone and never cared to do so: the screens are way too small.

I’ve used MS for 20 yrs. Win8 is a break point. On my Win8 brick of a laptop, I have classic shell and it helps, a little.

But whenever I do something like start a pic or music file and forget to use a different product than Win8, it takes me right back to Win8 hell and I have to keep moving my cursor off the screen to the right until I can get a menu screen that will take me back to classic shell. It’s too much of a hassle.

No sir, there are more things in the world wrong with Win8 than can be fixed with classic shell. I hear that, if you have a professional version, you can opt back to Win7. I just have an off-the-shelf consumer laptop that was brickified by adding Win8 to it. If I could do so, I would revert to Win7 in a second.

Instead, I’m now for the first time, using an IPad.

You - and MS for all I care - can dismiss the real complaints of tried and true customers as just Apple aficionados in disguise if you like, but MS lost a long term customer here and I doubt I’ll be back for Win9.

Here’s the real problem, in a nutshell: MS doesn’t care about me as a consumer because I’m not a company or professional sale; sales to individuals are an afterthought because they have a captive audience in off-the-shelf computers.

Except they don’t.