Yeah admittedly it's been a while, and it didn't help that most of my peer group was in the 7 camp, but after some initial hesitation and "let's wait for others

Yeah admittedly it's been a while, and it didn't help that most of my peer group was in the 7 camp, but after some initial hesitation and "let's wait for others to try it first", Windows 8 folks seemed rather happy about the free upgrade. I can think of only one person from my group that really loved 8 and only just switched when 8.1 support ended.