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| quote: | Originally posted by Kthought
8.1 is surprisingly stable, fast and consistent. It'd take a catastrophe to get me to even fuck with my system in the next year. No time. sizzling hi hats more important imo |
It is stable, but I hate the fact (as with all windows products) that once you spend ages installing it, it will do update after update, and then you have to configure the thing to behave how it should have done right out of the box (like win7,XP was etc).
Cheers but I don't need it that badly. Once you configure it all, it's ok again.
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
I'm still on W7-64 and will be for the foreseeable. 2.5 years and 3 machines later and I've not had a single crash or issue.
So no, I won't be changing yet  |
For audio/production, there's no need to change whatsoever. Nothing was done under the hood to make it faster or better for audio, and it's no more stable than win7.
| quote: | Originally posted by aquila
Am I the only one who has grave concern over Microsoft's generous insistence on everyone updating to W10? It seems to have an ominous I, Robot/US Robotics feel to it. |
I think it's more about money; they realize that there are a certain number of people who will never pay money for a copy of windows and this is a way of at least bringing them in to the fold and trying to sell the other products.
What I imagine, is that M$ are happy to give 10 away from free for a very limited period so they have the chance later to try to sell other products or services.
However I think the biggest issue is that M$ needs 10 to be adopted. As I said before, due to the mis-steps with incremental upgrades, they've had massive issues actually getting people to use newer versions. It doesn;t help that there older versions (like 98, XP and W7) kinda nailed it, where the other version really sucked.
Their shareprice is largely based on market share. The more people using their products, the higher that share value, even if they are giving away a chunk for free. Just look at the current internet bubble of Uber, Giltgroup, Spotify - none of these companies are making profit (or ever have), but they are worth billions just due to user base, market share and possible revenue potential.
M$ are doing the same thing, and they were livid that so many people were still hanging on to XP. That legacy support is purely juts a waste of money for them.
The bit I really am worried about though is the subscription model. I will sell every PC I own if they pull that shit, and begrudgingly go mac only.
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and don't ask me why, I don't get it either) just check if the version number has a 9 to identify windows 95 and 98 for legacy support. Microsoft choose support of older software over the importance of a major version number and decided to skip one whole version on paper to resolve the issue so it can keep supporting legacy software as much as possible.
