William, Windows 8 is a real issue no matter what some say - from a user perspective. I have dealt with three tech calls this morning of which 2 were Windows 8 systems. I asked them what do they think of Windows 8 - they hate it and find it annoying. The 3rd person is still using XP but has a new Windows 8 box and hasn't bothered to start using it as she doesn't want to fiddle with it. My thinking is people who have to "use a comptuer to get work done (bookeeping, data entry, etc.)" want to get their work done and go home. Those people in the field are telling me they don't like it.

>So Microsoft added the start button back to Win 8.1.
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>Great, eh?
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>Except they didn't add the start MENU, just a button that pops up the bull$hit metro full screen menu.
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>That was all it took. Our company got a glimpse of that this morning and now the policy is no win 8.x on desktops. Win 7 is the latest (and hopefully last) windows OS allowed.
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>WTF is with Microsoft? Did they actually think faking a start button would fix the damage they already did to Windows 8?
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>Speaking to the TS folks at our largest railroad client this morning confirmed they will not allow Win 8 in their organization as well.
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>Another big 'feature' is that with sufficient screen real estate you might be able to have 2, 3, even 4 apps onscreen at once. Gee - the next upgrade should feature a full screen command prompt and 80x24 character screen res.