I am somebody who always rushes to get the latest technology and generally I find that it pays to be up to date and have more modern equipment. In this particular case, the latest version of Microsoft Windows has been a complete disaster for me. It really feels as if the product is not finished, not ready and should not be installed on an existing computer running Windows 7.

In other words, I would happily try it out on a brand new computer, with brand new software, but not on a computer running lots of different programmes, all of which invariably have not been updated as yet to Windows 8. In the first few days of running Windows 8 went find for me, with just my Nedbank Internet banking not working, but within a few days I started finding that a whole variety of programmes I used would no longer function, and that the computer, which is after all meant to run faster and better on the Windows 8, was literally freezing every 10 minutes – so badly that in fact the only way to switch it off was to use the power switch, because nothing else would reset the programmes or the computer. After a little over a week of using it, I asked my IT guys to reinstall Windows 7 because in my own experience, and that is running a powerful machine with the latest Intel boards and processes and plentiful RAM, Windows 8 was a disaster and rendered my computer basically unusable most of the day. That was not the end of the story though – they had to do a complete new reinstall and by that time I decided to stick with Windows 8 – albeit with a newly reformatted computer and a disastrous time in in finding all the program DVD’s to reload, licence numbers and not to mention all my documents and photographs etc having to be reloaded from backups.