One of my machines came with Win8. Don't really like it, forcing myself to endure the not-Win7 (actually, the not-Ubuntu) experience. It has its merits, but overall it's suck.
Anyhow, this machine is offline. It probably won't ever go internet, since I'd like to reserve the option of using this Win8 OS on another machine in the future so I don't really want Microsoft to lock this copy onto the half-junky mobo it runs on now.
It won't play DVDs. Meh, I woulda thought the WMP would integrate it all, as usual, but nope. Any suggestions?
It won't play ancient games. Apparently Win8 comes with DX10, DX11, etc, but no DX9 components. I gotta say I'm a little tired of writing glide wrappers for each game I launch, lol. Can I install a DX9.0c (or DX9.0d) runtime or will this really mess everything up? I confess my ignorance.
Can't even get a Windows Experience Index, apparently. I realize it's an almost entirely useless metric - but still, I'd kinda like to see how things compare.
Any other "must have" recommendations I might need to know about?