Windows 8 works great on my laptop, for me its just a refined windows 7 in that mode. I think the big change is a few years down the road, I probably won't own a desktop, laptop and tablet. It will probably just be a tablet that I dock to work in different modes. That is where Windows 8 and onwards will really shine, work at your desk with keyboard and mouse and then just take the tablet with you and carry on with touch.