Installed it yesterday along with a SSD drive, boots in 15 secs
. The front screen (new version of start menu) is a little annoying but just remember the corners are really important and it balances out, a touch screen would make it better. Took about 1/2 an hour to find my way around and set things up, my desktop included, now its business as usual as everything is still there. Instead of clicking on the start menu you just put the mouse in the top RH corner and click from there. I start most programs from my desktop in any case. Only problem was not being able to install CS4 (adobe installer at fault) and have had to upgrade to CS6, lucky I am eligible for the education version. If I had to pay full price I would be pretty p@$$&d. Curiously a number of programs that I had trouble installing on win7 and were unstable when running went on without a hitch on win 8 and run well. Would have thought it would have been the other way around. All my printer/scanner/camera drivers etc all work no problem and they have been around for a long while now. Still to form an overall opinion but it certainly is not another Vista.
Mark