[joenathan]

On my tablet I love it, I have a ThinkPad Tablet 2 and from my extensive tablet usage(starting with an HP TC1100 running XP, iPad and various Android tablets) I think it is by far the best tablet OS to get work done on, from their being no hassle to connect to printers, full USB peripheral support, compatibility with old x86 apps, quick gestures, and the metro/desktop multitasking is great. Plus I think IE10 is the best tablet web browser I've ever used, I wouldn't touch IE on the desktop, Firefox with all my extensions is my only home.

On my desktop I initially would use the metro stuff here and there but after few a few months the novelty has worn off and I very rarely venture into the metro stuff. When used that way Windows 8 is just Windows 7+. I think one of the greatest things about Windows 8, is the promise of Windows Blue, Microsoft's commitment to pushing out major upgrades.

In summary, on a tablet Windows 8 is excellent, on a desktop it's at times between ok to pretty good.

Edit: here is a screenshot from my tablet of some of the printers that I've connected to in my travels http://i.minus.com/it1xr6gbOnAFx.png

[hp50g]

Cool. Thanks for your detailed reply - much appreciated. Going to stick it on my T61 this evening.