Quoting specise_8472:

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I agree, I had to get a new PCIE Firewire card for the new mobo, and Win 7 picked it straight up. No issues.

What might have confused him is the info that Microsoft compltely rewrote the firewire drivers for Win7 and Win8, which might not work with some older legacy firewire hardware.

Quoting perryoakridge:

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Now my next big question would be to ask:  What is the favorite E-Mail Client Software that you use? 
In XP I'm using Outlook Express to download the e-mail and prefer to continue that method rather than using Webmail.  Since Win7 (and 8) no longer include a mail client, which free client software do you like to use?

In searching around the internet, Thunderbird seems to get the most positive votes, and some for MS's own Windows Live Mail.  But really what do you folks use?  I appreciate any responses and discussion.  Thanks!

I'm using Morzilla Thunderbird.

Quoting perryoakridge:

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This PC's BIOS does not support Secure Boot, which Win8 requires to install.

This is nonsense. Windows 8 does not require Secure Boot.
Secure Boot is only required and has to be turned on by OEMs to get a Windows-8-Logo.

Quoting Lewis_Prothero:

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Quoting Zwollenaar:

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I'm using Morzilla Thunderbird.

Same here.

Best E-Mail-client there is.

Untill you try Outlook It isn't free though and it's much more than an E-mail client.

Quoting Lewis_Prothero:

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tried Outlook and dismissed it for Thunderbird.

Well, I tried quiet a few alternatives and always returned to Outlook. In my eyes no other email-client can compete against Outlook's contact management.

I use Thunderbird as a PortableApp on my USB-stick, but Thunderbird is the worst client in contact management. What I really like about Thunderbird is its extensibility, there are lots of good plug-ins like Lightning and Enigmail.

I use Thunderbird privately and I used to use Outlook at work.

In a corporate environment Outlook is great for mixing its mail and agenda (meeting requests, alerts) features. But...

I find Thunderbird a lot better (read: easier) to manage multiple mail accounts (as I have several at my ISP, Gmail, Hotmail and Live). It needs plugin(s) for agenda features but I honestly do not need that privately. I prefer the good old paper version of an agenda  . Both Thunderbird ("address book") and Outlook can manage contacts where you can add a lot of detail. What suits your purpose more I cannot predict.

As Thunderbird is freeware I suggest you try it thoroughly. You can always fork out big money for Micro$oft Outlook if you don't like Thunderbird. Outlook is present in multiple biddings (Outlook standalone, part of MS Office, Office 365, outlook.com) so IF you go for Outlook, you take the variation best suited to you.

BTW, small typo in the OP naming Mozilla (the "r" shouldn't be there). Thunderbird can be found here. Right below the download button you can search for your preferred language version.

Back on topic  . Thunderbird works great on W8. Still haven't found a way to migrate without error my main machine to W8.1.

The nice thing about Thunderbird (and Firefox) is that you can back up your profile directory and copy it to another computer (or a rebuilt one) and have everything back the way it was prior.