You're wrong. I use Windows 8.1 all day every day (at work and at home). I almost never see the "Start Screen" unless I'm on my Win8.1 tablet. What you know about Windows 8 wouldn't even fill a thimble, and your opinion is therefore uniformed and invalid.

Your understanding of Windows OSs is ... minimal.

IE hasn't been an "abomination" in years. Versions 10 and 11 are fine, powerful, fast, modern browsers.

Your opinion of Windows 8 is about as accurate as the parent comment's opinion of Windows XP is.

XP only seems good because you've forgotten what a pain it was in so many ways after getting used to how much better Windows 7 is.

There are way more Windows 8 installs than OS X installs.

Chicklet keyboards becoming ubiquitous is the bane of my existence. I blame Apple for this nonsense. They're horrible.

Windows 8.1 is supposed to have a lot of accessibility improvements over previous Windows versions. I don't know if that helps, but there was a lot of info about all the improvements being made when Windows 8 was released...

If you've not heard a single good thing about Windows 8.1, then you haven't been listening very well. It's a damn good OS that just takes a few tweaks for desktop users and about a week to get used to. It's different, not bad, and once you accept that, you can see all the good.

The start screen IS the start menu, dude. It's not a glaringly wrong thing at all, it's just different. Takes about a week to get used to, and if you customize it, it can be every bit as useful and efficient as the old start menu. Make an effort.

THis review needs to be updated. I just bought and played Stick of Truth on the 360, and it was one of the most fun games I've ever played. Hilarious. Enjoyable. Engrossing. Gross. Silly. Funny.

Here's a fun one... the new Nokia 3310:

And if you're really into the command line, you should give PowerShell a look.

Windows 8 includes a vastly improved Task Manager that lets you see what services are using CPU, and get good graphs of disk, network, memory, and CPU usage as well.

That's an entirely different issue, isn't it? For example, IE produces a button for every single tab. I never have fewer than half a dozen tabs open. When I switch away from IE, I want to switch back with one click to where I left off... I don't want to have to hunt through thumbnails OR through half a dozen…

The graphics were a lot uglier to me. And you could no longer independently select the queue color ... in RCT1 with LoopyLandscapes, the queue color could be color coordinated with the ride color. With RCT2, the queue color was suddenly locked to the specific support/border(fence?) style. I found it very annoying…

Best version is still the original with the Loopy-Landscapes DLC add-on.

Roller-Coaster Tycoon is one of my favorite series... even though virtually every entry in the series is deeply flawed in some way. I still get addicted.

Hey, can you fix your damn comment system so it works on IE11? It's been broken for nearly a week now.

Using the taskbar with multiple-instances of apps open (or multiple browser tabs) is annoying as hell... if you click away and want to click back, it takes TWO clicks... once on the button, and then once on one of the (potentially many) thumbnails. Having to stop and hunt through the thumbnails to find out which one…