At our house we have several different OS's on a number of devices: Win8, Win7, WinXP64, Android. I did think that Vista was a demon from the lowest level of Mordor and it required exorcism by an MS adept on a now defunct laptop. However, as painful as the learning curves to the various changed and added controls in an OS can be, it usually works out for the better (IME). Win8 on a laptop with a touch screen is really a convenient feature, makes the Win7 laptop feel clunky and old. Also we have a Win8 cel phone which performs quite nicely. Win7 has been the best OS I've ever had, stable and responsive, but the Win8 experience is virtually the same, only faster to load. There are some irritating "who moved my cheese" moments at first, but that's the nature of software updates isn't it? Even Planetside is not above those kind of things: "Raytrace Atmosphere" I grasped easily, "Defer Atmosphere" not so much... Who can blame MS for the direction they've gone with Metro, a necessary element given the proliferation of portable devices. So hang in there, at some point we just really need to make our preferred apps work as expected, and as long as PS can make it work with whatever new OS I'm happy.
