I unwisely made the jump to windows 8 with my new PC, I thought I'd give the befit of the doubt because some users say its not that bad, but it is just DOG SH#T!
Ok eventually you can set it up to be very much like Win7 and have just the desktop like experiences but until you do, expect productivity and easy of use to be cut down in half. Plus put it this way I've had three blue screens of death and not waking from sleep mode issues where as with win7 I dont recall ever having any crash or issue.
I also have ubuntu on my PC and I'm finding myself booting into that more often because of the issue and of course my AmigaONE x1000 so in a way I'm glad it so bad as I might now give up on Microsoft and literally only use for the odd exclusive game.