What I'm talking about isn't opinion but actual descriptions of tasks that people have made that simply aren't correct. For instance a couple of weeks ago there was a post around here about how tortuous adding a printer driver was in 8. The process to add a printer through the Control Panel on the desktop is virtually unchanged between 7 and 8. 8 will even add drivers for networked printers it can identify automatically.
I've seen this particular theme quite a bit where people complain about something that's so difficult in 8 yet the process works essentially the same as with 7 and it often involves the Control Panel and I have a feeling it is because people don't know about the Power Menu.
Actually Windows 8 and Windows 7 are not the same. I am not sure what you are refering too but the control panel integration with Metro is a fucking nightmare. The control panel under 8 is a fucking bad joke,
7 was able to identify network printers as well.