I hated windows 8 also until I got Start8. No longer am I a chronic sufferer of vertigo (random/constant changes in UI physics) and doorway amnesia. All I need to find now is a better file-explorer, I really hate the “ribbons” in the new explorer and all the new office programs for many of the same reasons I hate browser toolbars. Other than the changes other the hood I think 7 was the best OS Microsoft ever released, it was beautiful.