Someone convince me to buy Windows 8

[DeeBye]

When you say Replacement for the Start Menu, are you talking the boxy tiled display? In some of the commercials, I saw that you can minimize or close that, and it leads to a standard desktop style look, that has me sort of interested, I think my kids would engage with that better than they do the windows 7 start menu

The "boxy tiled display" is really just a re-skinned Start menu. At a desktop view, Windows 8 is much like every other version of Windows.

edit: I just found out that I can change the Windows 8 weather app to properly show temperatures in Celsius instead of the archaic Fahrenheit format!