I rather liked Win 95 and XP. Then came Win 7, which I like more than XP. Then my laptop broke and I had to buy a new one for work. It came with Win 8. Had it a week now, and I like it. Easy to use, fast start up, and its almost the same as Win 7. Its just one click to get to the desktop and start menu. The girls at the office hated it, but once they got it setup how they wanted and got used to it, they like it now. Guess that the benefit to being young. Took me all of 10 mins to figure out most the differences. And you can still run multiple windows at the same time, just like Win 7 or before. This Dell Inspiron with the i3 and Win 8 is more than twice as fast as my old Sony with the i7 and Win 7