ponokareefer - glad it helped
I'm having a hard time seeing why people dislike Win8 so much. Enterprise level stuff has become a total hassle..thats another topic all together with Win7/8.. but for everyday use Win8 is much better than Win7. Resource management is much better, boot speed is much better (with a SSD my bootup time is under 5 seconds).
If you have a start menu, such as classic shell I cant see much difference from Win7. Now if you like WinXP over 7 I will say nothing about that but Win8 has better overall experience than Win7 so if you alrdy have 7 going to 8 can only benefit you. The only issue I had with win8 when it first came out was driver issues, but now that its been out for a while most product manufactures has fixed up driver issues.