Susan cried from the depths of the abyss... > I'll be interested to see whether or not businesses convert to Win8. I still see XP regularly, primarily in the financial industry, it seems to me, because they are often running legacy software. Small shops might move to win8, but I don't forsee Win7 going away anytime soon. Much like XP was with 2003, Win7 & 2008r2 play nice togeather. I feel this pair will be around the enterprise area many years to come. I would imagine those XP machines you see out in the wild will soon be Win7 and not Win8. > I've repaired units running Win8 but haven't played with it... I appreciate any input here... I ordered a copy of Win8 the first day it was released. I have been running it as a VM on my office PC eversince. Once I figured out the whole desktop mode thing it wasn't too bad. I don't have a touch screen to use so I can't comment on that part, but the OS itself isn't to bad. Win8 is all amped up for the "Cloud", and that doesn't interest me at all. For work purposes I still like win7 over win8 myself. I have no plans of moving our PC's at work to win8.