Its a bit early to say thumbs up or down.
8 offers no advantages over 7 to big buisnesses.
even small businesses with 50-50 PCs, in the segment i work for, are requesting W7 when offered Both.
The decision is FIRMER by those small business Bosses that have some kind of W8 experience. (private laptops?)
The businesses that have no W8 experience are hesitating.
The hardware manufacturers are doing their subtle spin too.
Lenovo ships iut Small 15"" Laptoops with a Win8 Licence and a W7 Image on it.
Sure, the W8 recovery media are in the box...
But the laptop has no DVD drive!
I was thinking "lenovo fail" first, but i can see the message now...
"for the sake of your own soul, use the Win7 we provide!!!"
Them dudes rock!
Big Businesses prefer stably working machines instead of funky gaming devices, can not afford to support the ongoing development of a all-size-fits-all platform that Win8 aims to be.
all the gimmicks and changes offer no ergonomic advantage, since with win7 i have learned to type iexplorer
www.subsim.com or outlook or word instead of clicking buttons. That whole metro thing, when i tried... was utterly useless.
and do not get me started on using the gui to shut down the windows.
LOL?
For me?
W8 is another Vista.
W7 is here to stay.