Lol, having a few months to ponder about what your going to do next does widen your perspective unless you like being confined to a cubicle which is no bigger than a lavatory domicile

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The first time I used windows 8 in a VMware I felt like hitting my head on a concrete breeze block to nullify the migrane that was being to encompass my brain lol. Had to imagine I had a larger screen than my 17inch laptop, as moving the cursor to the bottom corner zones didn't work, drag to close from the top was tempermental, not to mention the whole host of issues I ran into (however all this is a given as it was an emulated environment after all).
I normally don't wish any one ill, but the person or team who though hiding the power off button in the settings charm (the amount of complains I get about that is unbelievable), needs to have some sense slapped into them with a dead rotten piranha or something..

lol. Yesterday I had to listen to a guy grumble on about that for an hour, couldn't get a word in edge ways. The only way I could get him to stop was installing the Updates to windows 8.0 and show him it was fixed - even a youtube video didn't stop him

(this is where skype translator would have really saved my ear drums lol).
The way I see windows 8 and I tell the users that I teach, is that they are using a more efficient version of windows 7 with a snazzy user interface plus a lot more features. As the first thing a new user used to ask is, "can you downgrade this to XP or windows 7 for me?". Once they have sat and processed that they become more accepting.