Have you ever used Vista? Even on SP2 it sucks
I have not used Vista so I forgot to mention that Win 8 is the worst among the Windows I've used
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I haven't had any problems that you listed
Maybe it's a layer 8 issue, that seems to happen a lot
A lot in windows 8 & internet connectivity problem is killing me in the network I am in (The connectivity dies once in a while & I need to reboot; & not just me majority of those who switched to Windows 8 are getting this problem in my network), where iptables & tc are the firewall & traffic controlling toolsets.