About time they let that old thing die. The only good thing about it today is that it runs FFXI more efficiently because of certain backwards compatibility things that were changed in windows 6.0 and up.

Personally, I have no issues with windows 8, although I never tried 8.0, only 8.1. Don't really miss the old start menu either. I usually just pressed winkey and started typing what I wanted to start even in windows 7, and I can do that just as easily with the start screen on Win8.

One thing I do miss though, is the aero glass theme. It's not that the Win8 window theme is bad, but I just like having the options.