After using 8 and 8.1 since release date I find it hard going back to Windows 7. 8.1 is very snappy, and well thought out.
Hybrid boot is amazing tech, halves your boot time. Hate waiting for Windows 7 to sort itself out these days.
There is a lot of negative hype out there about it but most of this is from ignorant or anti MS people. MS have been making some great products of late.
Windows 10 is also a good OS too, I have that setup on another desktop here and each update that is pushed it just gets better. A shame they had to bend over and use a hybrid start menu though as that feels like a step back.
The release should have been Windows 10 then 8 maybe the change would be more subtle.
Can't disagree with you more, but then we all have our points of view.
Frankly I find the entire Win8 interface very irritating.
And I never have had a boot time issue with Windows.
I buy relatively competant hardware.
