While the Windows Explorer in Windows 8 is a significant improvement, it still pales in comparison to Directory Opus. Directory Opus gives you so many productivity enhancing features that can't be found in Explorer, such as tabs for different directories, customizable shortcut buttons and lots of other customizations, multiple panes for listing files and directories, etc. Explorer is quite nice for folks who don't do a lot of file management, but for those of us who do, Directory Opus is well worth the price.