Good for him. I think the best, perhaps, of all the "latest and greatest" was 8.1. :-/ Uwk who missed a chance to get that...
Ok well I finally managed to uninstall it (I had to delete files first then it let me uninstall). Reinstalled it....and big fat nooope. The list of people having this problem is growing. I'll cry if I can't get that house because of this.