I really don't understand this mentality... i've been using Windows 8 on my home and office PC since release day, had 0 problems with drivers/games....
+1, as vaguely explained in my post, however I like to hide the network just in case a share is incorrectly hosted by someone, somewhere I don't know...
Considering this is what you are doing at the moment, would there be any weight in installing FSRM on your file server and creating a file screening...