It's conventional wisdom and an accepted practice at a lot of shops that to install a Microsoft product before SP1 is foolish for production. Anyone who installs an RTM product is more or less a paying beta-tester.

I think Windows 8 is where Microsoft should have been in 2007 and they are going to make their customers basically beta test their extremely late to the game tablet-supporting OS. I can't see them coming anywhere close to iOS or Android for at least three more versions.

I'm done with waiting for Microsoft to "get it".

I'll keep my Win 7 laptop for a while, but I have just purchased a new ASUS laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed and it's Ubuntu, Android, and Mac for me for the foreseeable future.

Microsoft SQL will continue to be my profession but Windows 8 is embarrassing in how late it is to the dance.