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mothman said:
zumnupy10 said:
I really think W8 can be successful in the tablet market. But what is the reason to upgrade from W7 on desktops ?

The only reason I'm running W8 Pro right now is because my W7 PC decided it didn't want to boot properly anymore. It would come up to Starting Windows then bounce after about a minute of sitting there. Diagnostics said it was a bad HD or motherboard. Of course I had no DVD and never bothered to back up my system so I formatted the HD and installed Linux and everything was fine except for the whole "none of my games run on Linux thing". So when I saw W8 for cheaper than W7 at launch I thought why not. It's been working fine ever since.

If not for that I'd still be running Windows 7

I personally do not think about getting W8.

W7 is a very good product and many are not willing to move from it right now.   It will be a tough job for microsoft to make people leave behind what they are used to.