# Fear and Loathing and Windows 8

<http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2012/05/fear-and-loathing-and-windows-8.html>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

The most important message I want you to understand is this: Windows 8 is not Windows. Although Microsoft calls it Windows, and a lot of Windows code may still be present under the hood, Windows 8 is a completely new operating system in every way that matters to users. It looks different, it works differently, and it forces you to re-learn much of what you know today about computers. From a user perspective, Microsoft Windows is being killed this fall and replaced by an entirely new OS that has a Windows 7 emulator tacked onto it.

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