On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 08:54:42 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote:


I believe Windows 8 was a marketing failure not a failure of the basic
operating system. MS concentrated on the tablet interface, and hid the
fact that there was the desktop interface.

In the desktop interface Windows 8.1 is as good as any thing that MS has
released in the past, including Windows 7 and XP.



Double-ditto! The only significant lack in its desktop interface is
the start orb and its features, but that can be easily restored with a
free or very inexpensive third-party program.