Windows 8 was widely accepted as a problematic release and there's no current support for it. But almost no one remains on 8. On the other hand, Windows 8.1 is

Windows 8 was widely accepted as a problematic release and there's no current support for it. But almost no one remains on 8. On the other hand, Windows 8.1 is a perfectly fine OS and there are still significant number of users from what I saw in the latest census. It's slightly faster and lighter than 7 and does not have many of the components of 10 that some users don't seem to like. My own machine came from OEM with 8.1, but I upgraded during the free phase and while I personally like 10 even more, am sure there are people who are hoping to remain on 8.1 for as long as possible, so it would have been munificent of MS to have supported Office 19 on their platform, but I guess they won't and that's that.