Hi again.

The point is that you can get rid of the Metro UI and I wouldn't really call it bloatware unless you call the Windows 7 interface bloatware. 

It's just the interface.

You can run Windows 8 just like you ran Windows 7 or XP my computer boots to the desktop I never see the Metro UI unless I chose to go there and I don't connect to the Cloud.

It does improve performance, I had Windows 7 and Windows 8 both installed running the same software (including Poser and pretty much everything Adobe makes) and some games (total over 100 software applications) and even after almost a year of running them I saw a measurable performance increase using Windows 8.  

In fact I found working in Windows 7 frustrating because it felt slow after switching back from 8.

For one thing my computer boots to the desktop in under 40 seconds.

Widows 8 handles how it loads stuff at start up a lot differently.

Now I want to make clear that I'm not suggesting that everyone upgrade, but anyone buying a new computer should go with Windows 8.  I'm in the process of doing that right now.

Otherwise I'd only recommend it for geeks like me, or people who feel compelled to get the last iota of performance out of their computer, like gamers, that's me again.

There's certainly no real reason to upgrade a 5 year old computer with 4 gigs of ram  and a dual core processor except for the novelty of having the newest thing.

Mike

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