Well, I'm in the process of switching to Windows 8. I thought I would pass along my experiences with it as it pertains to kix.

However, to start I thought I would mention my first experiences... On my new computer (with SSD) it absolutely screams. I can hit restart, and have the start menu up and running again within 10 seconds. I dislike the Start Menu less than I did in the beta's, but it is only because I figured out why I hated it so much. For some people, I don't guess losing the start menu to the start screen is all that big of a deal. But for me, I used the original like crazy. After quite a bit of work I have come to this as my start screen.



The first grouped icons reproduces the second column on the original start menu. The second grouped column of icons is my most frequently used.

The real work was figuring out how to make some of the icons in the first grouped column. Shutdown, Restart, and Run icons can be recreated by creating a new shortcut and using the following commands:
shutdown - shutdown /s /t 0
restart - shutdown /r /t 0
run - %windir%\explorer.exe shell:::{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}

I guess I need to load up some scripts and see how kix behaves now.