Just... wow. 

Alright, history - I'm one of those who had XP, tried Vista, hated it, skipped to Windows 7, loved it, tried the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, loathed it, hated it, swore up and down I would never install such a broken OS and I would stubbornly wait until Windows 9.

Until I found out about this.

I was skeptical, so installed Windows 8 on an external drive, then this overtop of it, and... wow.

So, seriously. Wow. This... this makes Windows 8 /useable/. It makes it an... actual... human-useable OS for the desktop. It... I don't know how to be effusive. Suffice it to say, I'm now using Windows 8, and every part of it I loathe is nicely, surgically cut away by Start8.

Bravo. And thank you so much, Microsoft should be paying /you/ for developing this brilliant app that fixes their busted OS.

Are there any plans to allow 'widgets' to work again? The only thing I miss now is not having a desktop clock, calendar, weather app, and CPU usage set of widgets on my second monitor to glance at. Which is another failing of Windows 8, but compared to the rest, it's bearable.