Windows 8 Underground Edition 2013 -

To the uninitiated, the name sounds like a hacker’s fever dream: a forbidden, post-apocalyptic version of Microsoft’s most controversial operating system. To those who were there, it represents a fascinating collision between Microsoft’s corporate vision of touch-centric computing and the underground modding scene’s desperate desire for control, speed, and anonymity.

It also served as a cautionary tale. The "underground" is rarely benevolent. For every brilliant modder like uG_Reaper , there are a dozen crypters waiting to inject malware into your boot sector. Windows 8 Underground Edition 2013

Tech blogs of the era— Rafael Rivera's Within Windows , ZDNet's Ed Bott —caught wind and condemned it. Ed Bott famously wrote, “Running a Frankenstein OS from a stranger with kernel-level access isn't hacking; it’s digital suicide.” To the uninitiated, the name sounds like a