Are you sure it's not a hardware issue? This discussion seems to indicate it's a hardware problem http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg28623.html . Only Windows 8 is for some strange reason not affected. I do have the same problem with Arch Linux and Windows 7.
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