I ran Windows 8 in virtual machine to try it out for a while which immediately overcame my usual desire to upgrade to the "latest thing." Without a touch screen, I didn't find a single new feature that made it worth the trouble. Maybe on a tablet but I'm happy enough with Android.[/url]
It turns out its a lot easier to turn off the annoying stuff than I thought, but it took a lot of looking. Just turn off the windows store tile. Sigh...
I'm going to install a few flavours of linix in vms on the lab server at work to see what all the fuss is about. I've pretty much had it with Microsoft.
In the tablet and phone universe, you're pretty much locked into someones ecosystem. Apple and Google are no better.
Edit: Murph, is this one of those pull my finger jokes? Check out where your link took me.
