Anybody figured out Windows8 yet?

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DM60 said:
For the lone wolf recording, (maybe I am wrong), I could see sitting, getting ready to play and motion to hit record without having to go to the keyboard or mouse, push record, go back, sit down and start playing. Might be pretty cool. But I do think this makes the need to upgrade one's monitor to touchscreen no longer necessary (or less needed). Plus, you don't have all of those finger prints on your monitor.
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No argument from me. I think that thing is awesome! I want one! It reminds me of Tony Stark's J.A.R.V.I.C.E. computer.
 
DM60 said:
Worse Case, I would not go back to XP, Win7. I have had very good luck with Win7. Very stable, I like 7 much more than XP and I had XP since it first released.
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I'm sure you can find free copies of legit Vista install disks! LOL

Yeah, W7 is the most stable MS software. Even more than XP IME. OEM Windows 7 Home Premium, is only $100 or so.
 
DM60 said:
Worse Case, I would not go back to XP, Win7. I have had very good luck with Win7. Very stable, I like 7 much more than XP and I had XP since it first released.
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I'm using Win7 now on a couple of laptops, but still have XP on a third and also on my main DAW....and without a single doubt, XP is like 5 times better IMHO.

Win7 seesm like it was made for mindless robots (Win8 is even worse)....for people who don't know how to deal with any OS issue, so Win7 wants to make all the decisions for you or it tortures with endless stupid "are you sure" pop-ups...not to mention, it seems that they moved around a lot of stuff just to piss people off by making them look for them.

Anyway...I don't see any special/extra "stability" with Win7, my XP boxes are rock solid....I don't recall having any XP issues since like the first service pack.

IMO...an OS, just like any browser, should be as transparent as possible....with Win7, I'm always aware of the OS with almost every mouse click.
 
Read an article that stated that one could dumb down the looks of windows eight to look like windows seven :facepalm:
 
We ran through Vista at my day gig....NO ONE liked it. Actually, they didn't just not like it, everyone HATED Vista.
I never switched, stayed with my XP box throughout the Vista fiasco that lasted like 3-4 years. We could have gone to Win7 from XP, if we just waited maybe, a few months....but NO....they had already bought into Vista, so it was forced on us.
Now we are on Win 7...and I am still using my XP box, but I have two laptops loaded with Win7 that I'm grudgingly moving over to only because they are now taking steps to block XP altogether on the network...even my exceptions have run out. :(

I'll most likely bring the XP box home (I'm on it at this moment) and leave it on the kitchen table for awhile....maybe I'll eventually get use to Win7....right about the time they make us go to Win8, which I think is coming soon to us organization wide. :rolleyes:
 
Funny story, not really relevant, but I will tell it anyway. I remember going from DOS 3.1 and trying out Windows 1.0, needless to say, it was a dog. Then I actually moved to Windows 3.1. I could not get use to the idea of move, copy and past in a GUI. So, every time I went to go do something I would go back to DOS and do what ever I wanted and then go back to Windows. 3.1 you could configure everything. Then comes 95, oh boy. What a change. DOS was now an application and configuration was really a pain.

I guess the moral of the story here is, after almost 30 years on Micro computers, change is constant. In a lot of ways, this is good. My first DAW was not even a DAW, it was a sequencer and just to get MIDI was like, $800 for the Roland LAPC-1 (still use the keyboard controller) and can't remember how much the sequencer cost and it didn't do recorded sounds. A 286 cost $3000 and the hard drive (I was first on the block) was 20MB. The word Giga was only used by scientist. So, change isn't all bad. :o
 
DM60 said:
There might be a club for Vista lovers, i think there are like 10 in the world, now eleven. ;)
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Before settling on a shiny new computer back in '07 (or... '08?), I ventured online after hearing a few sourpussian plaints about the then-new OS here and there to see if the general consensus among tech-geeks mirrored the mumbling I'd heard. The internet offered review after review from stilted fusspots picking it to pieces. Nevertheless, I decided to take a leap of faith and -- paying no attention to the turgid turd-heads of the blogosphere -- strode, chin-high, into one of the many pimples-on-the-map that make up the corporate giant known as Walmart to purchase my chosen contemporary adding machine.

Plugging the beast (called an Acer) into the wall, I was welcomed by this new technological marvel ! nay, friend, by a cascading melody composed by none other than Brian Eno. Thereafter (aside from the occasional ignorance-inflicted STOP error [colloquially known as the Blue Screen of Death]), I experienced no problems with the Acer until its hardware began to fail.

However, that isn't the end of the Acer's story . . .
Days ago, armed with nothing but a soldering iron and my wits, I set forth to repair my trusty cyber-steed. The procedure lasted hours, what seemed like days, but I -- and it -- arose victorious!

I now have two laptops at my dosposal; my loyal, hard working Toshiba and my old but mighty workhorse, the Acer, which I plan on implementing as my studio computer in the coming days. So, if I am to be the eleventh in a former string of ten for standing by my first laptop (also my first personal computer) and its operating system, Mr. 60, then so be it. Chock it up to nostalgia or lunacy if you like but I am content with it and no one else need be.
Why? For I am the one choosing to run it, not they.

Good day to you, sir. I am truly sorry that you have been blinded by naysayers and therefore are not privy to the marvels of the thing we call Vista.
 
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