Windows 8 Arrives
I've been running Windows 8 since they release the RTM version to TechNet subscribers on my primary laptop (about a month now).<p>Short version - outside of Metro it's basically Win7SP3 and it works great.  Metro is every bit the usability disaster that people have claimed when not running on a touch screen.<p>The good news is that you really don't have to interface much with Metro at all.  It replaces the start menu, but it does so in a manner that works with how I'm used to dealing with the start menu already.  That is, I already just hit the Win key and then start typing until the thing I want pops up, and that behavior has carried over.<p>So, yeah Metro is awful for all the reasons everybody has already laid out.  Despite that, Win 8 has been a solid performer and I won't be loading Win7 back on this system.<p>My primary home system will continue to run Win7 until I am comfortable that my production applications will all run successfully (and by that, I mean "games").