Sick joke? What, because it uses Windows 8? I honestly don't understand why people hate Windows 8 so much. I've been using it since I got my laptop last month and it works absolutely fine. Sure, at first it was weird and slightly confusing, but once you get used to it, you end up liking more than previous iterations of Windows. Just give it a chance. If you don't like certain things, you can just change them yourselves. Windows 8 is not bad.