Not sure what you mean. I was more thinking of e.g. if some old PC game has extra problems in Win8 (compared to Win7 and earlier), how to make it work. Or my pet peeve, how to get Munt to work. E.g. in Win7 you needed to do extra steps like installing BASSMIDI or something similar.

Windows betas are free Windows licenses for about a year and then a discount at the end if you decide to upgrade. ;)

I'm primarily a Linux user but maintain Windows installations for gaming. My full retail XP is finally starting to limit my gaming options (both driver and D3D support) so it's time for an upgrade. Vista would be fine but Win8 is the latest so I'll be going with that.

I've stuck with XP Pro for a long time but not because I'm particularly in love with it. I move my Windows installation around a lot so I can't use a cheap OEM license (OEM license doesn't transfer). I also don't want to give up some of Professional's features so can't use an inexpensive Home Upgrade. Microsoft is going to be offering a very cheap Win 8 Professional Upgrade at only $39.99. That's just too good to pass up.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-8-Upgrade-price-Media-Center-Promotion,16179.html

Aside from cheapness, I was also interested in seeing what all the fuss was about.

Why adopt Win8? I'm not sure. OCD behaviour probably accounts for most of it. But I think Microsoft shot itself in the foot by making Win7 so good. In truth, it was what Vista should have been.

In any case, Win8 seems to be aimed at less accomplished users, perhaps trying to get a market share of OSX which novice users widely regard as being much more user friendly. I don't think there's much here for the average power user.

I always keep the software up to date, so I guess that goes for the OS too.

Also, it is the first legal OS I've installed so far, currently using the Enterprise evaluation version that runs for 90 days. I've read that you can rearm it at the end to be good for another 90 days.

Don't see why somebody would not upgrade, even if you don't like Windows Runtime, the background improvements are worth it. $15 if you've bought a 7 copy in the last few months, $40-60 if you already have an XP / Vista / 7 copy. Just like buying a mid-budget / AAA game.

Well, Vista was a good OS to avoid in the beginning.

I'm looking forward to Win8. Was very happy with Win 7 and even if Win 8 is only an improved version of Win 7 I'm happy.

Probably, since back then, drivers manufacturers, especially ones like NVidia, ATi that for Vista had to use the new WDDM, were still using their XP ways of doing things, and BSODs were running wild.

I've had only a few BSODs on 8 so far, all except one (which had to do with the battery almost dying) have been related again, to the GPU drivers. Running beta versions with not-yet-globally available OS isn't what you call stable.

I think you mean complete inability to enable Aero, because it's gone from Win 8.

Well, I mean more along the lines of actually disabling the compositing effects that cause so many problems with legacy games (I believe it's called "Disable desktop effects" in the English-language version of Windows).

As far as I know, that's gone too. There's no transparency anymore - it was still sorta translucent in the consumer preview but from the final version it's back to opaque again.

I will kinda miss the nice looks but I'll get over it :)

^ ^ I didn't mind Windows 8, but the inability to disable desktop composition was a deal breaker for me. I still play quite a few games that require that option, and there just aren't enough good reasons for me to upgrade to 8 when it's going to break those games.