Probably too little, too late.
I know of 4 close friends who have all been sold new laptops bundled with Win 8 within the last 2 months. After wondering WTF was going on, all of them purchased OEM copies of Win 7 and formatted Win 8 to oblivion within 24 hours.
The simple truth is this, people (normal people, not hobbyists) want computers to work for them straight out of the box. They do not want to learn how to use an OS all over again.
Damage is done.
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