I HATE Windows 8. This is the worst OS ever invented.

Ken - Imagine the chaos if Boeing and Airbus suddenly decided to reverse the throttle positions or transpose the aileron and elevator controls on a airplane. I'm only glad Microsoft don't build planes.

[ Wait, who's contracting Air Force and Navy? Jee-SUS! ] 

Windows 8 is enough to make anyone move over to Apple. Perhaps this is a new idea in Microsoft marketing policy.

?!

Nothing new about that in my world. Seriously. http://www.apple.com/. Friend of mine has 2 of the first ever built... one still running!  

Try this. http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/imac

Or this! http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/mac-pro  

(my new lush: pro 6core-dual, D700-dual, 2.7Ghzx30, 64GB)

Obviously, Windows is the test ramp. Apple now boasts "3d multi-tasking", while Windows core services [refuse to capitalize that] Search Connector and VSS are stumbling around making my desktop a pile of junk. I just hope that after 34 years of grief, Germany finally allows us another DOS 4.01 breath of fresh air. Is Germany the puppeteer? 

8 is 34 years up the dog's... Please be kind though, as we gasp along. We're all here cuz we like bending mind and wit, as Microsoft explores "new possibilities", right? Wish I was a contributing engineer, watching these two fascinating OS's dance along 'together'. Are Bill Gates and the Apple whoever going to party on Wreck Beach again this summer? Ho-humm.

Truly, I feel not one twinge of guilt. My brother engineers for government in places where they design OS's for the jobs at hand. He thinks the "terrible twins" are "spastic junk". TO which we reply, "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder!"

ok here's the new slogan for Microsoft once they address that windows 8 is a failure for mouse and keyboard users.   "retro from metro". 

Really Ken, Like flying a airplane?.  This should not be as difficult or many hours required to learn how to fly.  Stupid answers just mean you don't have a valid answer. 

Windows 8 may be ok for touch screen.  My monitor is on the wall, Do I really have to get up every time walk across the room and touch the screen?

I like touch screen for my smart phone.  I like keyboard and mouse for my computer.

Ken please feel free to make your childish comment's about my response.

No sense addressing the real issue.

Windows 8 failed for keyboard and mouse.  Please make a "classic toggle option"

Ken - learning to fly an airplane is easier than learning this pile of non-intuitive rubbish. Imagine the chaos if Boeing and Airbus suddenly decided to reverse the throttle positions or transpose the aileron and elevator controls on a airplane. I'm only glad Microsoft don't build planes. The whole point of standards and continuity is to avoid the need to learn new methods. If it ain't broke don't fix it!

Windows 8 is enough to make anyone move over to Apple. Perhaps this is a new idea in Microsoft marketing policy.

try xbuntu or linux mint both look very much like win xp , win 7 and with openoffice.org you can still open and work with your ms office files. best of all ... these operating systems and programs are free. im using ubuntu 13.10 and getting used to it is much easier than messing with a cell fone ap/os without a touchscreen . who would want to reach 4 feet back to their monitor just to swipe anything anyway? it was really retarded to make a cell fone type OS for the PC .

Sounds more computer hardware (and perhaps Internet router) connected than Windows 8.1 connected.  

Make and model of the computer in question?

make and model of the internet router in question?