To all of you who are complaining about not being able to use Win8 after using other OS's, get off you lazy but, and figure something out for yourself. Thia thread was for friendly advice, not another place to let your emotions flow out. If your only advice is to downgrade, then do that yourself and shut up.
Anyways...
I personally love Win8. You can customize the start screen, to have the icons where you want simply by dragging them. It has an app atore, which is awesome. I love that it sure has email, skype, and other very useful stuff on the start screen. (If you are on a laptop) you can slide your finger accross the touch pad to switch applications. You can delete running tasks without using task manager. Personally, this is waaaaaay better that Win7, and it doesn't take much to get used to.
Good luck!
-Bic