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They are basically the same OS, but 8 has a number of performance improvements and uses UEFI instead of BIOS.
All you need is a nice little app called Start8 for a couple of bucks, and you don't even have to use the Metro interface at all.
I was really apprehensive about it, but wouldn't go back now.