> If ",,,you're Bank of America writing millions of $$ transactions/second to your massive storage farms..." you are NOT using Windows software...
Right . You're using ZFS SANs and NASs with vast amounts of RAM for dedup, and SLC SSDs with their own BBS for your L2ARC and especially ZILs. You're also going to reduce async writes to a minimum, except for maybe NFS to offsite NAS.
But you're still going to rely on redundancy, multiple copies of anything important, to protect your data. That's important for anyone.
BTW, I like Win8. It takes maybe 10 whole minutes to get comfy with it, and problems have been few and mostly related to 3rd party software written for Win7. My 70 year-old mom likes her big HP AIO running Win8 on her kitchen table in the morning. NYT, local news, email, Skype, etc. Quadcore I7 with 16gb RAM makes short work of pretty much anything she wants to do. She got a 5-minute rundown on a BestBuy display model, and decided she liked it.
http://www.jargonsoft.com/support/knowledgebase.php?article=149
Contrary to some of the answers above, this does seem to be an issue.