What to believe, eh? Few days ago it was brilliant sales now it is not so good.

Either way I never expected W8 to set the world alight with tablets and phones.
Time will prove if I am wrong.

I hope more manufacturers apart from Samsung now promote Chrome OS.
Competition is good, at least for the open-minded not brain-washed into brand worship.

windows is awesome actually, i find it much better and prettier than W7, especially for normal people

Its to do with backwards compatibility not brain washing.  Linux is far superior to Chrome OS but still can't get good market penetration.  I think you will be proved wrong on tablets as businesses will buy them for full Office functionality.

I definitely agree with the their excuse about availability. I can't seem to find any of my prospective devices in stock on any online store. I'm looking to either buy a an Asus Vivo Tab or a Samsung Ativ 500t. At this point, I may end up buying the one I can find first.

Not all that surprising since Windows 8 seems better suited for handheld / multimedia devices rather than every day PC work like Windows 7 is.

And why won't M$ understand that most people do not want to change their OS every 3 years or so? The best thing about XP was that it had the longest lifespan of any flagship OS from M$ in the modern PC era.. took nearly 6 years for Vista to come out after it, and by then most people had settled into XP and Vista was an unnecessary upgrade in many people's eyes (myself included). Then they corrected most of the mistakes they made in Vista with Windows 7, and now that has started becoming the defacto OS for most people, finally convincing them to upgrade from XP or get a new PC/laptop altogether.

Now just 3 years after they right the ship with Windows 7 they want everyone to upgrade again, this time to an OS with a questionable interface that throws conventions out the window? Yeah, good luck with that.

No surprise. Windows 8 has good ideas but it's not overwhelming.
When I saw Windows 8 in a shop I tried it on a PC and on a tablet. Seriously, it's lagging. Wtf is that? I quit Windows because I couldn't stand loading times and the poor process timing anymore and now Windows 8 comes around the corner with a "smooth" GUI that is lagging. So they didn't do anything better after all. Just change the visuals and aim for the mass market. Poor OS remains poor.

This is kind of disappointing to hear. Windows 8 actually does it's job. I think it'll do a great job in the tablet market, but not so much in the PC market.

It is a pretty solid OS in terms of features. As a desktop OS there are definitely noticeable improvements to the overall design the only issue is that it feels like there are two OS' on the system. If you do all your work on the desktop mode it is great or if you do all your work in Metro it is also great but switching between the two is a little jarring.

Edit: Firefox had a spasm lol to finish the rest...

As a desktop OS it is their best overall release ever as it is fast, streamlined and it gives you great access to a lot of the higher level/techy features.

As a mobile/tablet OS it is their best OS release yet as metro is fantastic.

As a combined OS? It is worse than Windows 7 at the moment although I would predict that once the bugs are ironed out and I get used to it I'll be pretty happy with the result.

It'll do well eventually. I am thinking of buying a laptop/tablet hybrid and Windows 8 pro is perfect for that.

What kind of response can you get from someone who has never used it? I'm typing this on Windows 8 and overall I am pretty happy with it. I've already found some of the apps to be a really good extension like for instance the mysky app for recording shows when I know I'll be busy on the computer for a few more minutes. I use the left hot corner and drag over Sky and then click on a show and go 'record' it's a pretty neat way of doing things.