I was very enthusiastic about the forthcoming windows 8 (when it was touted to be much lighter (small kernel, etc.)) having skipped Vista completely, hadn't been too impressed with win7 when released. But not really being able to do much about it, I was stuck with it on my net win7 netbook and I'm still not overly impressed with win7.
So from the initial hype I really was looking forward to win8, but the more reviews I have read the less impressed I am about it as a large screen Desktop PC OS solution.
So I may have to wait for the next incarnation of windows (win9) if there is one or take the best of a bad lot and get win7 before I get a new desktop, looks like that may be some time.