300U/300D in Melbourne

Used it for years on Win 7 (and prior) and now it's build into Win 8 so never have to worry about it.

Not sure what you are referring to with multiselect but you can right click on as many items as you want. Closing screens is either by swiping or by right-clicking in the recently opened apps i.e. left sidebar (I only figured that one our recently). With slower I didn't mean the machine was slow as both Win 7 and Win 8 was using the same machine (Core i7, 8GB RAM if that matters) but just handling things. If you're on start you can just start typing. You get a full screen of results which is amazingly quick. You can have a metro app (news, twitter, music open and pinned to one side which using desktop in the rest. This is what I mean with making may day to day life quicker. I don't own a touch screen laptop or desktop yet but I can only imagine that just making Win 8 even better.

I think the way people think is wrong. When the mouse came out we didn't stop using the keyboard and we should treat touch screens the same (a 3rd input). There's no doubt that Win 8 feels like it has an identity crisis but after being forced to use it for a couple of weeks, Win 7 feels clumsy and slow.