Great to know. I’ve been pretty much ignoring 8 unless I hear that it’s got some reason to actually upgrade from 7. And unlike Bill’s assumption… I *DO* use the start menu, all the time, cos all you have to do is hit the "Windows" key, type 2-3 letters from what you want to find, and bam, there it is, hit enter, done. Windows 8 GUI… not nearly as convenient. 😉 (and yes, i know it still has a desktop and start menu, they haven’t completely killed everything good about Windows yet)
A faster, better, smoother kernel would be a good reason to switch. Anything running better on many-cored setups.