I would wait for the release of Windows 9.
 

Chaos_21
I would wait for the release of Windows 9.
 

+1  There will be a Windows 9 RC available for you to try for free on September 30 available from Microsoft TechNet. Other than that I would stick with Windows 7. Newer isn't always better.

I would wait until Windows 9, this way you will only have to do this only one time.

flyinion

bcavnaugh
I would wait until Windows 9, this way you will only have to do this only one time.

Wait on my rebuild until the Win9 RC?  LOL I guess I could wait 4 more days, but the weekend is the perfect time to rip everything apart and put the new parts in. (all parts are here finally as of noon today)  I have a 4790K that's burning a hole in my desk waiting to be powered up 

I meant from Windows 7 to Windows 9 (Non-RC)
I though from "stay with Win7" that you are upgrading from Windows 7 and not a New Build.
With that I would stay with Windows 7.
Have fun with Windows 8.1

bcavnaugh

flyinion

bcavnaugh
I would wait until Windows 9, this way you will only have to do this only one time.

Wait on my rebuild until the Win9 RC?  LOL I guess I could wait 4 more days, but the weekend is the perfect time to rip everything apart and put the new parts in. (all parts are here finally as of noon today)  I have a 4790K that's burning a hole in my desk waiting to be powered up 

I meant from Windows 7 to Windows 9 (Non-RC)
I though from "stay with Win7" that you are upgrading from Windows 7 and not a New Build.
With that I would stay with Windows 7.
Have fun with Windows 8.1

This is what I am going to do with my new build. 

Windows 8.1.

It's better for running games. People complain, but you can optimize it to be the way you want it. If I were paying for a new OS, I wouldn't get an older one.

RainStryke
It's better for running games. People complain, but you can optimize it to be the way you want it. If I were paying for a new OS, I wouldn't get an older one.

Ah ok.  Well, the $$$ thing is not a problem since I already own both OS's and am just reinstalling 7 or installing 8/8.1 on my PC with some upgraded hardware.  I think I'm going to go ahead and give 8.1 a try and if I do have the problem with the joystick dropping out in MS FSX and can't solve it, I guess I can go back to 7 or something.  
 
I've had the Win8 disc sitting around since when it first came out and they were offering the upgrade to Win8 Pro for $40 for download.  I figured it was dumb not to buy it at that price.  I didn't install it right away because I was planning on doing a computer upgrade soon at the time, but then life happened and that didn't line up until this year.  Of course I'll be updating it to 8.1 if I use it.

Well, I'll probably regret it, but I decided to run my win 8 disc last night after sitting through the 7 install (wiped the partition again first).  Going to update to 8.1 today and test a few apps.  Need to see  if Chrome is looking correct....it was fuzzy on 8.1 on my wife's laptop a couple months ago but I haven't looked in a while since any updates.  Also going to test the joystick issue that I was concerned about.  I suspect I'll end up back on 7, but I guess I figured I should use that $40 that I spent on the Pro Upgrade version at release at least once.  There's early user reports of the joystick issue with the flightsim being fixed on Win 10 at least on the tech preview so that's a good sign.

notuptome2004
 
i have been on windows 8 to 8.1 since windows 8 launched and never had an issue  with chrome being fuzzy. i have installed  windows 8.1 on 2 other system no issues  i would say it it is the quality of your  wifes laptop that is the issue  not windows 8.1   also what joystick is it your having issues with  a  good freind of mine  has a few he uses for differant thing on his HTPC and no issue .   
 
Ther is no issue with windows 8.1 in other words   so unless you are gonna be using really rare propritery hardware and or softwware that  you cant get anywhere then you should have no issues.   Windows 8.1 is a faster OS then windows  7  and the fact that Windows 10  will end  up more then likley being free to windows 8 and 8.1 users    keep windows 8.1 install

Actually if you Google "chrome fuzzy on Win8" there's a lot of results that come up.  It has something to do with the display scaling built into 8 that changed from 7.  If you right click the chrome icon and turn off the scaling for it you get a nice clear browser (on my wife's laptop) but because it's a higher resolution packed into a 15" display everything in the browser becomes very tiny.  Kinda like setting the browser zoom to 75-80% but it affects the whole browser window as well (i.e. tabs and everything shrink in size too).
 
The joystick issue is a problem with all kinds of controllers and MS Flightsim X, I believe also X-Plane, and Lockheed Martin's Prepar3d which was based on Flightsim X although Lockheed patched their product to fix the problem.  The problem is that if you assign joystick axis's etc. in the sim and then if you tab out of the game to do whatever, when you tab back into it many users find the joystick has disconnected from the game until they restart the game.  There's a large 53 page thread over on Avsim about the problem that has been running for 2 years now. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/393486-windows-8-joystick-megathread-problem/
 
This was partly traced to the Selective Suspsend setting being enabled in the USB section in Power Management.  For some users turning this off fixed it, and also turning it off for the USB hubs in device manager under 8 (not required in 8.1).  Some people still experience the dropouts and the only fix is not assigning the axis's in the game but through a 3rd party DLL addon utility that many people use.  However the paid version of that utility is required for joystick control (although in my case I already own it).
 
Apparently some things changed in the version of DirectX that ships with 8/8.1 and the DWM part of windows that is also potentially responsible.  I do know of at least one person who could not get his Saitek flight yoke/rudder pedals to behave under 8 and 8.1 and went back to 7 has reported no such problems so far with the tech preview of 10.

well i have never had the chrome fuzzy issue at all  ever so i dont know     and i have installed chrome on a 1080p 13" laptop my mother has  so not sure   it just works as always   

flyinion
Well, I played with 8.1 for a few days and decided to wipe it and put 7 on my new build instead.  It wasn't bad, but it also seemed like it took a lot of extra steps to find control panel things (vs. a popout menu on the start menu) and other settings type stuff.  Also couldn't deal with the horrible organization of the apps listing.  Sure it puts them in categories, but those categories don't collapse and it just made it painful to find stuff.  That along with the controller issues for the flightsim made me decide to just wait for 10 which I'm liking the look of so far and it has so far apparently fixed the controller issues that 8/8.1 has with the flightsim.  If it turns out to be a free upgrade for 8.1 users I'll reinstall 8.1 long enough to get 10 next year lol.

 
 
to find congtrol panel and setting all ya do is right click on the start button   Also  the  issue you had for Apps is easy  you can customize the start screen how you want by pinning the apps you use  on to the start screen or  taskbar    like ya can do in windows 7  but in the start screen ya can pin them to the start screen then   you can multie click on them and organize them to how you want  and put them in groups  . and in All apps  it is siomple to find the programs cause they are all visable  
 
 
Also for me the performance improvments  in windows 8/8.1  was a reason i never went back to windows 7   cause  i played with windows 7  on a friends system and it just felt slow at some of the same task

flyinion
Did not realize you could do that with the Start button.  I might load 8.1 back on and if I have to program my joystick through an addon utility for the flightsim to keep it from dropping out I might just live with that.

 
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/start-screen-tutorial
 
 
 go down the list ther and ya can  see how to organize everything  on the start screen to the Way you want it  also this scrool down on this link to  more option on the start button  
 
 
http://windows.microsoft....ows-8/desktop-tutorial