As one of the Spring Chickens on this forum, I can attest to the fact that there isn’t anything wrong with Windows 8
that a little bit of applying oneself to a small learning curve wouldn’t cure.
If you don’t want to learn, then add a small program and you’ll be back to using Windows 7 only better.
It’s faster than seven, runs anything that Windows 7 runs and, even runs some programs that Windows 7 never did.
It’s more secure than Windows 7.
I’d consider it a Solid OS which I’ve used for quite some time.
Updating it to version 8.1 will only improve the product. 