I downloaded Win8 Pro N and installed it in a VM. Played with it for all of 2 min before I said this is a real POS. In hindsight, the UI makes sense for anything that is touchscreen such as public keyosk, Point of Sale systems, Information delivery, etc. The problem is the OS was released before their Hardware UI to support it which allowed people to install, and make opinions on it on a platform it really wasnt designed for. For touchscreen, and phones it probably will work well once people get used to it. For a standard system in day to day business use,, I dont see it catching on. Of course I heard Server 2012 has a similar interface so ill need to check that out as well. And to Ben, ME was a complete mess, Vista isnt that bad and managed to survive and is still being used as the primary at many companies globally