I'll be interested to see whether or not businesses convert to Win8. I still see XP regularly, primarily in the financial industry, it seems to me, because they are often running legacy software. As a Field Technician doing break/fix repairs the training I received regarding Win8 was there will be no COA stickers & the product key number is "injected" into the motherboard. The M$ product key needs to be programmed in when a mobo is replaced, this is sometimes done automatically. When I was onsite at a major software company recently my customer said his company will not be putting Win8 on any of their computers, he said it's "totally incompatible with a corporate environment due to the touch-screen interface." I've repaired units running Win8 but haven't played with it... I appreciate any input here... On another note... here's an interesting article on Dell's move to go private & Microsoft's offer to "help"... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/28/dell-microsoft-buyout-monday-note Hmmm... Dell currently offers the Ubuntu option on some of their systems, I wonder if M$ will insist upon Dell squashing that "testing of the waters?" Susan