Is 8 enough?

Windows 8 is the current release of the Windows operating system, produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablets, and home theater PCs. Windows 8 introduces significant changes to the operating system's platform, primarily focused towards improving its user experience on mobile devices such as tablets to rival other mobile operating systems, along with other changes and performance improvements. Windows 8 also introduces a new shell and user interface based on Microsoft's "Metro" design language, featuring a new Start screen with a grid of dynamically updating tiles to represent applications, a new app platform with an emphasis on touchscreen input, the new Windows Store to obtain and purchase applications for the system, and the ability to synchronize programs and settings between multiple devices. ..But is losing the desktop and the multiple views of applications in a real Windows environment along with a very attractive graphical user interface we had in Windows 7 really an improvement? I don't think so. I'll be trying out my free copy of Windows 8, but when, or if I consider it an upgrade remains to be seen.