Anybody else find it curious that these guys are trolling a help board extolling the virtues of the product in question?
I'll assume you professors have already made up your minds.
For the rest of us who aren't in a warm Intel embrace...
Windows 8.1 is apparently where the deepest issues are with this 7260 card... again, something Intel acknowledges. It may affect 64 bit Windows 8.1 more than 32 bit Windows 8.1 (or vice versa), perhaps explaining why some could have large installations of Win 7 or Win 8.1 32 bit with minimal issues. Most people will go to the websites of the manufacturer when their computer fails. This card is getting an enormity of forum posts on manufacturer sites such as Lenovo and Dell, and of course, we here are probably a little more aware if we are coming to Intel forums where this issue is playing out (sleep and speed) over many months on heavily trafficked threads.
So if someone wants to believe that a wifi card with tons of reported issues for more than a year on a heavily shipped OS with a manufacturer that acknowledges an unresolved issue with that OS = .01%, then be my guest. Just don't be our professor.