I have to confess as well. My 8.1 machine is the first windows in 10 years I haven't either completely wiped or dual booted. I live in linux, but now use virtualbox on this machine. I bought it to be a travel rig- my main development is still done on a dual-boot (that now never boots into windows), but I'm liking it. I wish the virtualization was a bit smoother but it serves my purposes for now. I just like the win 8.1 experience enough that I don't want to deny myself easy access to it.