You're just thrilled by the forthcoming challenge of trying to educate your users about all the fun differences in the new OS and the prospect of whiling away those long autumn evenings learning a whole new way of doing things and finding new fixes to old problems dressed up in new clothes. It's beyond exciting, isn't it?

The prospect of having to push Windows 8 with yet another new, improved Microsoft user interface, Metro, to however many users you might have has to be one of the big joys of IT.

I know, let's do a survey! Go and let me know what you think of Metro ... we'll wait for you ...

OK, so in an effort to take the fun out of wrestling with Windows 8, , the makers of fine tools such as , have announced , which it claims to be the only "intelligent" system imaging tool.

The idea behind RecImg Manager is that, should you need to restore a Windows 8 system to a previous state because of malware or some other intractable problem, instead of spending upwards of 24 hours grinding through a reinstall of everything including the virtual kitchen sink, the entire recovery process will be performed (after the initial image creation) without losing any user data or installed software and it will be done in under three minutes!