My main and only problem with windows 8 was the lack of drivers for my Audio Interface when 8.1 came out. My audiobox suddenly stopped working on my laptop the day I got 8.1, and never worked again on that laptop. Which wasn't that big of a deal it lead me to get a better AI anyway, and it still works on my Win 7 desktop. Not that I ever used it, but the Windows 8 app store and all that is usually broken from the get go. At least in the 3 experiences I have seen with fresh Win 8 computers the app store never worked. This never bothered me because I didn't use or need the apps. But for the other 2 less experienced computer users I saw run into the problem freaked out like their computer was broken. I had a buddy who had a laptop with 1 TB HD, an I7, A Geforce GTX 650, and 16 gigs of ram. He had his laptop for 2 days and sends me a text saying "This laptop sucks I can't use the netflix app". Needless to say I facepalmed