Similar state of affairs here. I installed windows 8 the day it came out, found it to be a pile of tripe, swore at it and rolled the machine back to 7 and vowed

Similar state of affairs here. I installed windows 8 the day it came out, found it to be a pile of tripe, swore at it and rolled the machine back to 7 and vowed never to touch it again. Then our hand was forced with an 8.1 upgrade at work (built in HyperV saves us a ton of VMware licenses) so I ended up knocking that back to 7's UI as best as possible. Occasionally it still pokes me with Metro so I tend not to use it much even though the machine is a beast. I tended to work on my laptop at the time, an old T400 ThinkPad running Windows 7. The keyboard failed on that so I switched to an i7 2011 MBP I had lying around as a test machine. Chucked 16Gb in it and an SSD and it's very nice even though it's got a 1280x800 screen. So I'm sitting here now on a 2011 MBP on 10.9 with a Windows 7 VM and am relatively happy, the only persistent problem being that the quote and at keys are the wrong way round. Nice move Microsoft. Even the most platform tied of us are easy to lose!