• Win 7 is a great upgrade. I'm not sure Win 8 is compelling from 7. From XP, either one.

    For the most part, the only thing that I had to change moving from Win 7 to 8 is pressing the Windows key and typing the name of the app instead of pressing start and looking through menus.

    Other stuff is minor, though if you can move to a touch screen, 8 provides some nice improvements.