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The cheap upgrade price is a good incentive for a lot of people.

Start8 added multi-monitor support which is nice. It's basically like Win 7 again. Full Screen Metro UI isn't really useful for people who multitask/use multiple monitors. I get the idea is to deliver a consistent experience when going from device to device, but my phone and my computer serve two very different purposes. For the general consumer, this isn't true and Microsoft has decided to side with them. Besides the Metro UI, I don't really see any problems with Win 8. And there are many free (Classic Start Menu) and cheap alternatives (Stardock Start8) to get rid of it.


I especially like the new task manager. It's a lot cleaner. You can see percentage usage for various things like CPU, bandwith, and memory. You can easily tell if something is transmitting data when it isn't supposed to. (Typically you will see one disk and one Ethernet connection ha)



Disabling start up programs is a lot easier as well. You can even see the startup impact of various programs. E.g. how much each program delays your start up. Of course with an SSD, you tend to forget about things like that but with traditional hard drives it can help you isolate what's causing a slow startup.



Processes now have Icons and Use titles instead of exe names. In the older versions of windows, sometimes end task didn't work and you would have to manually end the process. Hard part was figuring out what the process name was for that app.


All in all seems like a more polished version of Windows 7 with an optional new UI. It's definitely not the "new" Vista. I never had any real problems with Windows 7. But I always like new stuff ha.