[acropolite (Phil)]

Thought I'd give Win 8 a spin, one way or another I have to get my head around it as I'll encounter it sooner or later in my day to day work.

I parted with the reasonable sum of $48 for an upgrade copy and installed tonight. I was a little nervous given the low price for the OS.

Big mistake, should have run it up on a new hdd to preserve my old Win7 install, my first impression is that Win 8 is a dud, they've stripped one of the most intuitive and efficient bits out of the OS, that is the start menu and programs interface and replaced it with the "Metro" interface, which I can only describe as a dogs breakfast. Microsoft have really stuffed up on this one IMO.
A quick search reveals a lot of adverse comment on the forums.

To add insult to injury my backup of the old install can't be seen by the recovery disk, it's on a 2tb usb drive (the drive recommended by the win7 backup utility), for some stupid reason the recovery disk will only see 1Gb drives. No big deal, I'll find a work around but I hate wasting time on something that should just work.

I'll be rolling back to Win7 as soon as I work out how to get my backup image loaded.