Windows 7: Delaying Windows Upgrades: Do You Feel Lucky?

Whether or not I'm "East of the Mississippi River", depends on your point of view.

Classic shell was created in first place because Windows 7 was NOT designed right, as they've removed many useful features in start menu and mainly Windows Explorer, without giving an option to change it back. Classic shell in fact turn the UI of Windows 7 into WinXP, and also turns Win8 into WinXP.
Since I use my computer for real life work, I cannot stand a barebones Windows 7 and its unfriendly menu and explorer, therefore it IS a must.

The only thing I use a tablet for is to cure the headache from trying to cope with Metro

It wasn't designed for smart phones but, it does have a similar UI. The Windows RT tablets will have the same UI as one of the UIs in the laptop/desktop and 86-tablets. That is what MS is trying to do, make the interface similar for the average user, their thinking is it will make using a Windows smart phone, tablet and laptop/desktop more in sync and easier to use.

This will be a little bit harder for some of the laptop/desktop users and for sure the enthusiasts to accept and embrace.
I understand completely that many won't want to buy and install Windows 8, due to the new UI change, MS realizes this but have decided to move in that direction anyway, it's a calculated risk to say the least.
As a company they have recognized that they need to move into the tablet market and make some pretty big changes in order to stay relevant, or risk loosing market share.

I think they should have made an option to boot to the desktop and provide a way to enable the old start menu, this would have made Windows 8 acceptable to a lot more people.
Maybe it will come in an update or SP1. It will depend on sales and MS's determination to push the new UI.

I put the desktop tile in the top left corner of the start screen, when I enter the password, immediately hit enter and I'm on the desktop, which is where I spend +99% of my time, easy.
The advantages of Windows 8, in my opinion, make it my choice for primary.
Your mileage may vary.

The greatest thing about your choice of OS is that you can decide, as it should be.
I to have made my choice, it's all good.

I will adopt it here at home. It will probably some time before we look at it where I work. To each his own. I am sure there are many XP machines still out there, and I bet some of them users are lurking here.

I have XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10 on my PC.
I just found a new use for my XP install, so it will be getting some more "Love".

WLE Photogallery goes berserk in Windows 7 (because of the b@&%$# Libraries ).

WLE Photogallery is controllable in XP, as XP doesn't have Libraries.

Most businesses do not switch to a new Windows Desktop operating system until the first Service Pack. That lets MS get the major bugs out and lets the software makers catch up. So I suggest personal users adopt the same strategy on their computers they depend on. If you want to experiment with it do it with at least a separate hardisk. Complete separate computer is best.