I think the hubbub will die down. It takes about ten minutes to make a Windows 8 machine usable - putting the things you want on the start screen and setting th

I think the hubbub will die down. It takes about ten minutes to make a Windows 8 machine usable - putting the things you want on the start screen and setting the program defaults so nothing runs with the slow pastel apps. Sure, doing so is rejecting many of the new 'features' of the OS. But once set up it is no less usable than Windows 7.