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First a bit of background on my windows use and experience. I'm a big computer enthusiast. I love all kinds but am in no way a fan boy or hater of any particular OS. I have Mac OS computers which I love and one Windows 7 Machine that I assembled. It's a watercooled dual GPU machine built for gaming primarily but I do general computing on it as well. I have windows 7 Home Premium on it which I loved. It is a beautiful, elegant, and efficient OS. I had read about some concerns for windows 8-that it is designed more for touch or that it was pieces of different type of interface all glued together and so on. I was concerned. I read a pretty in depth book about windows 8 prior to installing it so I can be ready. I did a fresh install just to make sure it works as smoothly as possible. My impressions of windows 8: Frustrating to use and clunky would be a kind way of describing it-at least my own experience with it. The interface is extremely frustrating to use-this is even after reading an in depth book about it. It just doesn't feel "right" using it. I don't even know where to begin-from the start screen tiles to the desktop being an app-almost like an after tought for a desktop PC. This to me smells of design by committee type of a product. They think of all different things they want in there and just glue it on without regard to the final product as a whole and how the user actually uses it. It is disappointing, frustrating and frankly infuriating that they would take a beautiful OS like Windows 7 and turn it into this. Shameful. Thank you Microsoft but no thanks-I'll go back to Windows 7. I hope they can fix this horrendous GUI to salvage it and do better for windows 9. Disclaimer-As in all things, this is my own opinion and subjective experience. Your experience with this OS might have been better than mine. I really was looking forward to it since it did have some cool technical improvements under the hood but given the GUI interface, I just can't stand using it.