Looking to buy a new desk top computer and I'm a little concerned with Windows 8. I read that it's on the third revision and the revisions had to do with making it more keyboard and mouse friendly. Is it really the monster some people claim it to be or have the revisions helped?

Is it possible to buy a machine that can run Win7 now and switch to Win8 later when Win7 is no longer supported or is that just a pipe dream?

The LOML and I have Kindles so I get the tile thing but don't know how comfortable it would be using a mouse.

For the folks that do have Win8 what do you do for email? I've used Outlook Express forever but I guess I'll have to switch to something else.