My recent experience is that Windows 8 is a very good touch-based operating system, and I don't just mean as a tablet OS. If you've only used it with a mouse I

My recent experience is that Windows 8 is a very good touch-based operating system, and I don't just mean as a tablet OS. If you've only used it with a mouse I can understand your scepticism, but on a tablet or laptop with a touch screen (and maybe even touch-screen desktops) a lot of the weird things suddenly makes sense.