I also bought a new HP laptop in April to replace the 12 year old desktop. It came with windows 8. A local computer shop installed some kind of "patch" that makes 8 look like 7. I know 8 is good, but I wasn't sabbe' enough to be intuitive with it. At least now I don't get lost.
Oh, and I upgraded from dialup to high-speed wireless modem in the process.
