>>On that basis we'd still be using DOS, or maybe one of these :http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/mediciscienze/emed.asp?c=35418 :-}
LOL. But if people queued to buy Windows 3 or 95, why would they suddenly be afraid of change with W8? Seems to me it's because each Windows release used to bring huge value but now a cynic might conclude that W8's main goal is to try to leverage desktop dominance to force familiarity with the GUI of a failing MS mobile OS and to contrive advantage for MS Store.
If others shrug about W8 or complain, it's not because they're afraid of change- any more than a person who keeps their low mileage car for another year is afraid of change.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
