Windows 7 may be boring, but I find it incredibly productive. It is essentially well designed: most commonly used features are easy to access, and there aren't too many extraneous ones to distract you. I think windows 8 is good OS, and Microsoft have designed a tablet interface which blows away the competition. However, I think they have missed a trick by making the traditional interface secondary (why on earth would they force an entire context change just to get to the app launching menu??). They had a great opportunity to make *both* interfaces equally prominent, so that you could use either, or both as suited. Alas they did not, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do for Windows 9.