This  windows8 system must be the best advertisment for Apple I have come across!

 it has taken 2 weeks to get this far.

first the new PC with supposedly pre installed Win8 on it would not recognise the internet modem therefor cant activate the  system. cant establish  an email account  cant download needed software.

 MANUFACTURER SAID FIT A NEW Mother board. never asked what  errors I was getting, or what the  problem was  just wanted personal info and model no.

finally  we found that by re installing windows8 twice we go it loaded uncorrupted and it actually  went online  woopeeee!

 next  we need to have a Microsoft account to be able to get an email set up . sounds easy

 we have an email account with our National  internet provider .....  nope  windows wont accept other than Hotmail or live mail 'emails !!

  oh but to have an Microsoft  account  you have to have an @outlook.com account....

 fine, put that in  add passwords and security verification codes 20 times

log out and log in again to check . nope wont accept the password  then when we try to  re create the unverified account  just established it tells me it is already allocated ( yes to me but wont accept  the log in )

ok modify the  account email  & get a new account

  it then asks for a code to verify

  sends the code to the email  that I cant access because I don't have a  Microsoft account..

 being resourceful I  start the dying old PC we are replacing get the code from there on the old email "outlook express" (great   emailer too it was, but that 10yr old machine is sadly  underpowered and takes an hour to boot up to the email)

 return to  the Win* machine  enter the code .  does it work  NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 sorry temporary server problems  come back later ,, I think it said I have a week to verify that I am not a robot hacking tool

now you want me to keep all my business  and research and data  stuff on a cloud  ( someone else's mainframe)  that is just as likely to be down when I want it.

 please . make this  whole future a little more user friendly or so help me  MS will become a boat ANCHOR  & APPLE  THE COMPUTERS OF CHOICE