My thought is that Win8 is completely dead. On my machine, at least. I accidentally let my machine run to zero so that it shut off. It happens. The next day, I try to boot up after charging it and it goes into a blue screen of death and causes an endless loop. Nothing I have done has been able to get it out. Not the annoyingly hard to find safe mode, not the refresh options, nothing. After some research, this is a known issue since at least last October (I installed it in Feb) and that I am basically sol. Even when it worked, I didn't like it. Though I will say that it was very very fast, it was clunky and annoying. Fortunately, I was able to pull out my hard drive and clean off things I didn't want to lose, like photos. I am still yet to deal with the problem, but likely I am going to reinstall Win7. If they did any serious market research, these complaints would quickly have surfaced. Which leads me to the belief that MS knew people were unhappy but released it on them anyway in an effort to start training users on interfacing with the type of OS one would use on a touchscreen laptop or tablet. Putting aside any of my operational issues, this is the feeling I got within the first five minutes of using it and they never went away.