Either they were already considering making the switch, and the Windows 8 is not good enough to keep them on Windows, or they like to have the latest features i

Either they were already considering making the switch, and the Windows 8 is not good enough to keep them on Windows, or they like to have the latest features in an OS - to have the most modern one, so then Windows 7 will not be good enough for them in the coming years, and since they don't like Windows 8, they decide to switch to Linux. Personally, I'll keep Windows 7 for a little while longer. Definitely not going to use Windows 8, and I'm going to make my decision in a few years to what platform I'll switch , probably Ubuntu or Android if it becomes mature enough, and on the 64-bit ARMv8 architecture - 2014-2015 time-frame with the latest hardware. If Windows 9 looks like 8, I won't use it.