What's my motivation to upgrade? After spending two weeks learning the new way of doing things I will be as proficient as I was using 7. So... save myself two weeks and just keep using 7.I meant it more than its just as good as windows 7's system
To me the biggest issue with 8 is that Microsoft did a shit job of promoting it. "It boots faster!" Who cares. I reboot my computer every two weeks, maybe. With old fashioned spinning HD's I can boot in 30 seconds. People with SSD's already boot in 15 seconds or less. So Windows 8 reduces that to 7 or 8 seconds. Ummm, yay? "It's leaner and more efficient!" This might matter if people were using their hardware anywhere near capacity. Most don't. Most people have dual or quad core computers with 4+ GB of RAM and the hardest thing the computer does is play a YouTube video while surfing Facebook. They've got a 1TB drive and the biggest space consumer on it is 8GB of MP3's. Systems are so overpowered compared to what people do with them increasing the efficiency is just pointless for your average home user. There are systems that will benefit from the boost no doubt but again, shitty marketing. Then there's the issue people ask with, "Will my programs work under the new system?" Ummm, maybe?
Windows 8 didn't originate from a need consumers had, it originated from a need Microsoft's boardroom had. They wanted a piece of the walled garden pie. They wanted to emulate what Apple and Google had done and they went for it. The problem is that the result doesn't really do anything for the consumer. Windows 7 is a great product that works the way people expect Windows to work. Producing a new OS with minimal improvements over 7 then marketing it as little more than cool its pretty much flopping. To say that the market is lukewarm towards 8 would be a huge understatement.
