Anyone using Windows 8 ?

[ezdays]

I have XP on my laptop, but rarely use it since we don't travel that often anymore, but it still can do everything I need it to. My desktop has Win7 and I'm happy with that as well. I've had just about every version of Windows from, believe it or not, version 2. They've trained us all on how our OS should act, each time putting things in different locations and changing the names of the same functions, and I don't know why they do that, maybe just to show they're in control. Now they want some of us that has been using their OS for some 25 years to forget about everything we've learned and go out and buy new hardware so we can have our desktops act like a smart phone or tablet. :o I just can't see taking my hands off the keyboard or mouse to reach over and push a touch screen. To start with, it's far enough away that I'd be bending and stretching to reach it. Maybe it's good exercise for the arms and back, but I'm comfortable doing it the way I do things right now. If I had to buy a new machine with Windows 8 on it, the first thing I'd do would be to install some of those free apps that give you the start menu back along with the old screen.

I've read reviews of the new Windows, some people love it, others hate it. I see people in the stores and restaurants with their touch devices waving their fingers to find different things, and I'm guessing that these are the same people that love the new Windows concept. I guess I'm just out of the loop technically speaking, but I don't need all of that stuff. So to answer your question, no, I'm not even planning on using Windows 8 without being forced to do so sometime in the future.