I actually loved Windows 8 on... My convertible tablet. It's fast, simple and I can play games even 20 years old *with* touch, you know, those old Windows 95 games with giant icons which perfectly fit your finger like Dune 2, Master of Orion 2 etc'?
I also gained more battery life over Windows 7 (As the tablet originally came with Windows 7.) and HD video plays with less stutter due to how much less resource intensive the OS is on my Intel Atom single core + Broadcom Crystal HD chip.
However, on my Desktop it was a nightmare, I'm running in Eyefinity, 3 screens for a total of 5760x1080 resolution, on the Desktop or Windows 7 it works great I can have windows everywhere. But, Metro? I was always fighting to be able to multi-task more, my system isn't exactly low-end and I sometimes have several dozen programs open at once, you just CANNOT do that in Metro.
For your average grandma who only uses facebook, then sure I can see the use. - But it's going to take allot of time and re-teaching for them to learn how to use their PC again.
From a performance perspective on my Desktop, I noticed zero performance difference between Windows 7 and Windows 8, mind you with a 6 core processor with 12 threads, 32gb of ram, Raid 0 SSD's, everything is lightening fast anyway.
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