It seems you are a little biased. Personally I haven't used windows 8, but from what I hear its not that bad and some like it. Personally I haven't upgraded to windows 8 from 7 because frankly I don't want to reinstall everything. If you hate windows so much why did you buy a windows laptop?
I suspect they really aren't that bad. For $200 its pretty damn good. Course you are always going to have people say Chrome OS is stupid and is just the browser. Which it did start out that way. But its gotten much better since they started the project. Personally, I think its perfect to browse...
I just got it over the weekend and I've enjoyed it. Personally I think the campaign is great (about 75% through) and the online is basically the same nothing majorly different.
They have added some helpful features and of course some new units.
But if you are a fan and like to play it...