Why did you make windows 8 so bad?

It's complete ****! I have seven machines of which 2 are Windows 8 (purchased for family members, one costing over £1,000) and Windows 8 is a disaster of epic proportions. It is wholly business unfriendly, the apps do not shut down, the integration of everything via a single login means that one vulnerability causes all applications to be insecure, the layout is appalling (at least you can get hold of Classic Shell to at least make a pc look like a pc), many reputable retailers will not sell Windows 8 machines because it's a very bad OS, Microsoft has forced the big retailers to sell pc's pre-loaded with Windows 8 and make people jump through hoops to roll back to Windows 7, the system firmware (whilst an improvement), was never set for use with Windows 7 and Windows 8 is as bad as if not worse than, Windows ME or that other rubbish platform Vista. Awesome? Only for screwing up what could have been a good development.

Windows 8 is the best os ever, maybe learn how to use it first and than write your review.. and if you don't understand how to use it than sorry, it's not windows 8, it's you..

Your comments make no sense.. Windows 8 is great for business, learn how to use first!!!!

I agree with the naysayers, Sorry. 

It is a horrible idea that wants to suck you up and connect to every part of your life. I really don't want to see the same faces from my email contact list EVERY time I start up. I want to use the computer for work, or for study, or to log on to email, or to log on to social media and I want everything to be kept separate and not one part of a hideous information-hoarding Microsoft whole. I do not want to be owned by a software company. I want to pay one to give me a product I can use, how I want to use it - not on its terms, on mine, for the money I pay. Mac- or Microsoft-sponsored people I find slightly queasy, and it is an unsavoury side of big-business. I wish Microsoft would stop trying to ape Apple-smugness. They are beginning to look like a geography teacher dancing.

Windows 8 is also of outstandingly ugly design. A colour-blind muck-throwing chimp could do better, and this is no more than Microsoft deserve for this one. 

I had my hand forced as I needed to buy a PC for a software package needed for a module I am studying for. Before 48 hours were up, I took my PC back to the store where I bought it from for advice, the words "Windows 8" were mentioned and the salesperson -not me- suggested a refund. I got a refund. I have altered my studies so I don't ever have this experience again. I will just have to learn R. Muuuch less annoying than this whole PC nightmare. But for Windows 8, I would have been happy enough with a PC to go alongside my other computer. What a ridiculous and sinister system.

I think it is pretty awesome. Now what?