Well I've had more time to play with Windows 8 (it's been 24 hours now) and I am beginning to like it for it's speed!
I'm running it on a new Toshiba Laptop (model: C875-S7303) and upon first starting the machine I must have dropped a zillion F bombs! It's a huge change and it's an ugly change on a laptop. I do see now how it would help on a tablet with touchscreen but for a dkestop/laptop ***** no!
So first order of biz was installing a "startup shell" and being cheap I went with FREE! [FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Classic Shell (http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/)[/FONT]
Works real good and once installed you start up on the desktop again just like old times.
Next I made the recovery disc to restore it to it's factory settings should I ever have to nuke it. that they don't include these disc anymore. **** cheap-os! Lucky for me I had some spare DVDs. Thanks WD!
Next I got rid of all the c***ware that came with the machine. Norton EVERYTHING!, freebie games, Office Trial, Trial this and that! Installed some software that I do use (FireFox, Opera, Fireworks, MS Office 2010, PDFCreater) and was about to drop $30 for Acronis True Image to make a mirror image of the machine now with all my 'good' software[FONT=Calibri, sans-serif] but again being the cheap-o I found this!
[/FONT]Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download
Reflect Free which does the same thing and you guess it it's FREE!!!
So running that right now and backing up the image to an external drive.
The speed on start up is what amazes me right now. There is very little to no boot time.
Only issues I have run into is my old scanner won't work on it. It's a scanner that was native to Windows 2000! No drivers for Win 8. Heck no drivers for Win 7 or VISTA either. My printer is a parallel port type so I'm going to have to find a USB-to-parallel port to get it to work. For now the printer has been moved to my main desktop.
What I don't see the point in (yet) is all these "apps" for the "startup screen". In addition apps are now installed under PROGRAM FILES while software is installed under PROGRAM FILES (x86).
Well baby steps I guess.