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I downloaded Foxit PhantonPDF Standard and ran Form Field Recognition and it did a fabulous job making the organizer fillable! Each organizer will have to be opened and converted separately, but I can have an intern type do this. A big organizer took about 20 seconds and a small one took less than 1 seconds to convert.

I will get a taste of it when I get my new Surface Pro 3 set up. That is a play toy for me. In the meantime, my desktop and two laptops will stay at Win 7 Pro even though they have the option of being updatable to Win 8.1. Have had this discussion repeatedly with my IT guy; he has no problem with 8.1; but also thinks I am right to leave well enough alone. In other words, If it isn't broke, don't fix it! Best of luck to those who want to dip their toes into untested waters.

I can't imagine buying a new system with W7. It may be supported until 2020 so buying today may be ok. But what about next year and the next? What about buying when there's only one more year left of W7 support? By then, maybe W11 or W12 will be out. Will you be afraid of the latest os? Or will you be confident enough by then to go with W8? I think this will go on and on. I've always liked to buy the latest, use it as long as I could, then buy new with the latest. I was fortunate enough not to have to buy new when Vista came out and could continue using my xp until W7 came out. I may have bought Vista, may have gotten burned or not. I don't know. But W8 has been out almost 3 years. Get the latest and learn the new interface.

It's not an unsafe choice as far as driver and software compatibility goes. Like I said, under the hood, the guts are all essentially the same as Vista, with gradual refinement and optimization with 7, 8, 8.1, and now 10. As the above video states, they've made it faster and more lean to bring down the hardware requirements. The interface is a different story. 8 brought huge sweeping changes, with gradual refinement in 8.1 and 10. These changes didn't degrade software compatibility or the stability of the operating system, but they did upset a lot of people. For a new computer, I think the decision comes down to how comfortable you will be with the changes to the interface. If you're one to embrace change and enjoy poking around a new system to see what's new, then go for it. If what you see in the video gives you hives, then stick with 7 for as long as you can.