Anyone Upgrading to Windows 8?

[strife]

For all future touch devices that I may own (Surface, obviously, but also touch laptops, for example, and maybe even, at some point, a desktop with a touch monitor), I would put Win8 on it without hesitation.

For my current desktop, that I use for video editing, photo editing, gaming, writing, etc., I'll keep Win7x64 on it. I've never had a problem witn Win7, it works flawlessly for me. The main problem I have with Win8 for normal desktops is the lack of Start button on the traditional desktop "screen", and the attempt at forced usage of the metro tiles - metro tiles were made wonderfully for touch, but, and this is just my own opinion, forced metro tiles are crap for keyboard+mouse.

If they added a Start button to the traditional desktop in Win8, and quite trying to force me into Tiles view, then I'd upgrade in a heartbeat, as there are a bunch of very nice improvements, including performance, to be had.

Have you actually used Win8 for more than about 5 minutes? I've used Windows 8 exclusively for both work and home since it was released and I don't miss the start button.

And the start button is still kind of there, you just right click down there and it brings up most of the same options. I honestly never go into the metro/tiles. I have shortcuts to most of my apps on my task bar or desktop and the only time I do go into metro is when I need to get to a program that I don't regularly use, then I just go there and use the search function to get to it.

There is a slight learning curve to windows 8, but after that... it's just windows 7 with some fluff.