I do follow the update news on win8 all the time. I also appreciate the updates you give but they only make me continue to use win7. I have my customization the way I like it and see no reason to take a step backword at least in my case.

how anyone that has a large monitor 20" or above would want fingerprints all over it is beyond me. I get a little smudge on my monitor and have to clean it. The bottom line is to each their own and maybe for some it's what they are looking for, but it's just not what I want.

Dave... W8 isn't for me, even though mine is a touch screen.... certainly not at this point. Why anyone with a desktop without a touch screen would want W8 is beyond me.

About the finger print issue take a look here: This is an amazing piece of technology: https://forums.wincustomize.com/425914

Those with and without a touch screen can use the Leap. No smudges.

Doc, they use them on all the news channels around here. Weather maps etc. and never touch the screen.

Could also be Kinect, Dave. Anyway... $70 won't kill anyone, but again, why? I'm not impressed with W8.

Indeed. I am much more excited about the Leap than I am Windows 8.  Leap has the potential to transform ALL of existing desktop computing, not just small touch screen devices.

As i am sitting in my luxury CEO type rocker chair with my keyboard on my lap, quite a distance away from large monitors, i totally fail to see how W8 could possibly even come close to the easy of interacting with my computer, let alone surpass it.

Even at 14.95$ it's way overpriced. As a resource hog i'm not going to put it on any tablet which runs fine with Android and is fully capable.

Those who believe they can put W8 on a tablet and run Windows applications have not fully understood how x86 application don't port well to ARM.

So in the end, you have a cripple desktop since it's interface is touch oriented and therefore unusable in normal everyday use and you have  a crippled tablet because nothing runs on it that you paid for already to use on your desktop and will never will run due to the vast platform discrepancies.

Meaning you are seriously out of pocket for a touch capable desktop that you actually can use  (without getting various phsyical issues such as eyestrain, neckcramp, shouldercramp, tired arms) a tablet that can comnfortably run W8 and all new software in order to do exactly the same things you can do now.

Please explain to me the logic that makes people even consider going this route?

It's new.  Duh.

Talk about consumerism.