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Windows 8 is designed primarily for touch interface. Due to the high cost and lack of availability of monitors with touch capability it is not an attractive proposition. WIMP does not work well with Windows 8.
Conclusion, it may be ok for tablets and phones but it doesn't fit the desktop or server paradigms.
I will stick with Windows 7 for now and I am actively investigating alternatives such as Linux.
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I will consider it when my customers do.
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I have XP on bootcamp (on Macbook Pro) and don't use it much... but might have to upgrade to Win8 if a course demands programming using Visual Studio for XBox.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality!!!
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I plan to update it before I finish university (since I can have it for free thanks to MSAA) but for now I'll stick to 7 since I don't know anyone who used it and I don't know if it's worth it
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Plan A was to buy a clovertrail tablet/dock pair to replace my existing netbook and get my feet wet; but between limited availability and reports of clovertrail having buggy drivers I've held off so far. I'm currently debating what to do; I don't want to start with an upgrade to my main system, and spending $1k for an ultrabook or light/moderate gaming laptop with Haswell only half a year out doesn't sound like a good idea either.
Dual-booting my existing netbook's an option; but without a more extensive dismantle+rebuild session than I feel comfortable with it won't let me fiddle with the touchscreen options; and I'm not sure if the touchpad has enough multitouch to fully sample the W8 offerings there either.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've been using windows for some time now and I think it gets better the more I use it.
I know it very popular to bash the metro UI and the non-existing startbutton. But the metro UI works fine if you use the keyboard more and the mouse less... I agree it's a bit schizophrenic with metro/old windows UI - but I'll live.
As for the missing startbutton, best thing that ever happend!
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Interesting how you said " - buy I'll live"
That's the philosophy everyone uses with Microsoft's product changes.
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He he, typo... but I know what you mean.
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But, sudden change made me ashtonished.
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Win 7 still is a good os for me. 
Now, I'm using Win 7 and Fedora together.
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I've got it on one box - wishing I could undo it. All I do is tweak it such that it acts like Windows 7.
I don't have a touch screen.
I don't want a touch screen.
I work at home, code steadily, and eat at my desk.
My monitor is the only sanitary surface in front of me. 
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin
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My monitor is the only sanitary surface in front of me
That is good, i like this
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Unfortunately, I suppose somehow I'll be forced into it - but as far as planning: bah!
The Form/Substance ratio keeps increasing.
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Not necessarily - I hung on to XP until Win7 SP1, and avoided the abortion that was Vista.
For my (admittedly brief) exposure to Win8 I think it will be the same thing here - skip it and go to Win9.
Win8 seems to be great for tablets. But I don't develop on a tablet. I paid good money for a nice large monitor, and I don't want it filled with big ugly boxes rather than small tidy icons I can see...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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I am sticking with 7 on all our machines until something better comes along.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Let everyone else find the initial slew of 'issues'.
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It is not my decision. I get to install what my employer decides is best for me when I get a new replacement computer (no complaint). I got a new desktop last year with Windows 7, and a notebook two and a half years ago with XP. So unless something breaks this year, I won't see any Windows 8.
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Planning on upgrading my laptop, So I might go for something in the direction of laptop with touch screen or a slate.
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Been coding on win 8 pro for a while now.
Using all major windows op systems on a daily basis, including servers..
Really like win 8. Faster than 7. Interface requires some config. (Metro sucks.)
Would not want to go to 7 now...
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I'm in "whatever" mode...
I don't really care as long as it's 7 or 8.
I have Windows 7 at work and 8 at home.
Both work fine, and I use Windows 8 the same way as I use 7 so for me there's not much difference besides the Start Menu and the file transfer options... :p
So again... Whatever.
I won't explicitly upgrade, I'll use either one of them with the same joy 
Cheers!
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I'll be moving over to OS X next. Want to get into apple development. Had a sniff at Windows8 at one of those demo points and didn't like it. It felt plastic, if you know what I mean.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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W8 can only display one window at a time so it's totally useless for me. Also it's really unintuitive and messy. I had to teach it to an old friend last year and I was totally lost.
I think this[^] article summarizes my thoughs perfectly.
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Well, the desktop has been basically left untouched. Even my kids hardly noticed the switch, when it came to application usage.
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That is except for making it uglier. I mean aero and transparency were turned off and now we have ugly flat corners on all windows. There is program that can bring transparency somewhat back but I have not seen anything to fix the square corners on windows.
John
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That's funny, I regularly run Windows 8 with multiple Windows, so you seem to be talking from the wrong orifice on this occasion.
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