So I was able to snag a $14.95 upgrade to Win8 Pro and figured, "why not?"

I've got an ASUS netbook sitting around with Win7 on it, doing nothing, and the reports of Win8 speeding up older PCs inspired me to give it a try. It's now 24 hours later and I'll let you know if I ever get this #$%^&* thing installed.

I installed it to a DVD per Microsoft's instructions and tried 4 times to install it, with the installation failing each time. I tried all of Microsoft's suggestions, none of which worked. Then I tried booting from the DVD and installing clean from that. That failed. And, of course, now there is no operating system at all on my ASUS. I re-installed Win7, and used the "install Win8 from download" link in the email from Microsoft with my product key. It's installing at this moment, but I have to go to work. If this install fails, that's it for Win8.

I thought Microsoft had gotten past these kind of issues with Win7. Apparently not. This company never learns.