Re: Are people still banging on about Win 8?
I have to agree. I use Win7 on my 2011 MacBook Pro (seems fine) and bought Win 8 .1 for my new iMac's Bootcamp partition.
The tile interface is a bit weird (I too turned it off) but otherwise 8.1 seems very zippy and stable and actually runs older programs (alright, games; why else would I use Bootcamp?) better than Win 7 does. Win 8.1 cost me just £40 from eBay, which really is not much.