Windows 8

[Boop]

I don't get either the hype nor the anger

to me it's just a touch and performance update to 7

if your windows runs smooth and you don't have any touch capability theres no reason to switch
if you do benefit from from better performance and touch compatibility it probably deserves the praise
(from what I can tell the normal desktop view is still there)

no reason to hate on something you don't need - seriously
save your money and be happy
what did you expect?

I haven't tested it yet but will be able to do so soon - after all I have a touch+pen convertible which is a perfect fit

Because eventually I will be forced to upgrade and use this sh*t. I'm sure when that happens people will have reverse engineered windows8 to work just like windows 7, but it'd still annoy me. Because screw this stupid sh*t. Almost everything about it is god damn terrible apart from the underlying performance updates. They are locking bootloaders and restricting up access and all sorts of crap, yes today you can by-pass all that (except if you are using Windows RT, where you can't run unrestricted things) but it's a step in a bad direction.

TL;DR f*** change