For the first 6 months when it was released, there were 10s of hatred threads about this crappy OS. Then suddenly I start seeing the Windows 7 forums go almost dead and the Windows 8 / 8.1 soooooo busy. how come everyone started using this piece of junk OS all of a sudden? please don't say it's faster it may boot faster but to actually start using a program properly it's not. it has an optimized boot that gets to the desktop almost instantly but that's about it. rest eveyrthing sucks about it starting from the way it connects to a VPN etc. etc.... I only use it because my laptop doesn't have official win 7 drivers