Return to Windows 8 - Accept no substitutes!

There's nothing I could do with Windows 8.1 Pro Preview that I can't do right in Windows 8, and as I've said before in previous postings here, you can tweak this with third-party programs which restore the sidebar and its gadgets - with even more gadgets than came in Windows 7 - and you can restore the Start button and its Start Menu with better-looking graphics than are now provided in
Windows 8.1 Pro Preview.  

So, for the time being, until something more earth-shaking happens with that Windows 8.1 effort, you may as well stay with Windows 8 The Elder, because the younger one isn't ready for prime time yet. And it still doesn't make it really
easy for those of us on desktops (still the vast majority!) to navigate the labyrinth. So if the main object of the exercise was to make it easy for us desktoppers to click or tap our way through it, I frankly didn't notice that much improvement. I can get as good or better results by applying the freebie tweaks available with programs like Classic Shell or perhaps Start Menu Reviver. The former of those being my choice, but the other works well also. And as you see,
there's no problem running your favorite desktop gadgets on here. 

So you don't need to wait for Microsoft to "fix" Windows 8 for you. In the first place, it ain't broke, and in the second place, you can do it yourself in less than an hour, and you can have fun doing it. Think of it as a learning experience.
These gadgets? Get the 8gadgetpack and live a little! You'll end up with more than you'd get in the factory-equipment version of either Win-8 or Win-8.1 and it all works just like it was there all along.