Brought home a new laptop today with Windows 8 installed. First impression : they let a few nutjobs take over the design of this OS when the A-team wa s out to lunch. Nothing is intuitive. Simple things, like moving a file f rom one folder to another, require one to use Explorer. Even "my computer" no longer resides on the desktop. There are two interfaces -- the tiles v ersion and one that kinda mimics the familiar XP version. The former is loa ded with a lot of junk.
It's going to take me hours to get this machine set up -- hours that I coul d spend more enjoyably in the shop.
BTW, this is being written on my old machine, which needs to be returned to my employer come retirement date (May 3).
Larry