fun thing is people complain about windows 8, the only flaw i see with windows 8 is that there's no start menu HOWEVER I can loving play the original sims game, so if you have any compatibility it can sometimes depend on the manufacture (Hp, dell, acer, etc) Any software works on Any OS on windows unless if your using a mac, linux or any type of different OS. Yeah when I got rid of my stuffty note book and laptop that ran on Win7 I couldn't find any other win7 pc's so i had to use win8, and i hated windows 8 but then when I used it I like it. I don't see any point in arguing over Win operating systems, something to actually argue is a deliberation over windows and mac. I really don't see a difference between windows OS's over than its the same thing, same computer.