I'm a sheYeah one thing i did want to do is stick with finalized versions, so 10 preview was never really an option i was looking into.
Perhaps it's a female thing, seems silly to be torn over asthetics but i just hate the look of 8 and 8.1 with a passion. It just makes you want to reach out and swipe at the monitor with your hand as it's way too 'tablet' for a desktop. I have always loved the windows 7 aero interface. But having found ways i can get that back with 8.1, it helped to make a choice and i was happy enough to shift over to it so i purchased it earlier. I will have the concern of coming across something that won't be compatible but hopefully that won't happen
My mistake and corrected

Remember with 8.1 you can have it boot straight to old desktop so avoiding the Metro part for most of the time,8.1 is fine with good old mouse and keyboard just like 7.