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Windows 8 - my first impression

I was so excited about the first beta release of Vista that I built a computer specially to host it, and I liked enough to run it as my main OS for six months, although not quite enough to buy it. I installed Windows 7 on a spare HD sector of my main computer, but rarely used it. But I was so put off by the Microsoft propaganda with the release of Windows 8 "Customer preview" that I have installed it on a $200 used laptop from eBay. And my first impression is that it will remain there. In fact, as I looked the array of icons on the opening screen, I felt I had been time warped back to the early 1990's, and was looking at Windows 3 not Windows 8. I knew clothing fashions went round in circles, but I didn't realize the designers of computer operating systems were that fickle. Of course people will buy it, because it is built into the purchase of computers from shops. Will the corporate sector be bullied into adopting it? I guess if XP is no longer sup