i say ...meh.... to windows 8. I'm still on windows xp (32 bit) , though part of that is because of the cost of a new Os , (much cheaper to throw my already owned copy of XP ona new comp). and i do plan on updateing to windows 7 (64 bit ) in the near future.
but as a gamer ,a dn a student majoring in game art design , windows 8 does NOT sound freindly to a desktop work space /gaming enviroment.
on the other hand perhaps window's 8 release will push teh price of win 7 down some , , then i can get acopy of it easier , (that i will likely use for a decade , like i have used xp for the past decade)
but i highly doubt i'll go out and get win8 or win 9.
i also agree with others , that say MS is spreading out to much. i think thye are getting like thin butter scrapped over a piece of bread to much (to quote a certain old hobbit). and the spreding is starting to show in thier products. zune - un imagitive , windows- likely to stagnate soon comapred to past efforts, Xbox 360 - dies so many times i started calling it the "zombie machine" . Kinect - made me yawn before it was even released .
now i'm not trying to be negative on MS, i jsut think they need to pull a few "win 95" miracles off , or they may become irrelevant in the future. the next xbox , needs to be killer , not a dier, they should focus on improving win7 not replacing it with an OS that will likely suck. zune , go back to teh drawing board or jsut not bother. kinect needs soem serious games that work it's use into the gmae , , not jsut "tech demos" that show off what it can do.