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I work with a group of people and we share 1000s of large files using Live Mesh. The way SkyDrive works isn't going to cut it.
As Live Mesh is only included with Windows Essentials 2011 I assume I'll lose access to the file pool if I upgrade to Windows 8. So no go for me.
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About 60% of the 5000 odd users of our product still use XP (it is not long since we had to support Win98). So I still use XP and am well happy with it. We have Vista and Win7 as VMs for testing environments to support our more adventurous clients. So I can't see Windows 8 on the horizon any time soon. I suspect that for many of our clients Linux would be a prefered option to Windows 8 - we've certainly had a few more requests since Windows 8 started to see the light of day.
If Microsoft want to switch from the Desktop market to the Mobile market, then Windows 8 may be a good way for them to go, but it also seems to distance them from the Desktop market. They proceed down that path at their peril.
Rob in the West Riding
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I am kind of in the same boat. We have sold thousand of systems with our stuff running on Windows XP embedded. We are working on a plan for moving to Win 8 Embedded (or whatever it is called), but for the time being, XPe is working for us.
I could (should) have upgraded my own system to Windows 7 long ago, but since you cannot upgrade from XP to Windows 7 without a full re-install of all your programs, I have been putting it off.
Soren Madsen
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I'm in the same boat with my Win2K machine - OS is on drive D and WinXP doesn't want to do an upgrade 
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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Seems like the right thing to do.
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Slacker,
I think that Win98 or Win2K is better than win95... 
Nothing is Impossible, but sometimes it's hard to do
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jlarini wrote: I think that Win98 or Win2K is better than win95
were they really better? I would argue this stance.
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I am now starting to heavily use Linux at home for my personal development projects at home. Busy learning C++ with Qt for desktop and Python and PHP for the web.
Leading to the conclusion that I will soon have no need for Windows and its absolutely closedness of AppStore or whatever they call it. So unless I get it at my current MS platform work, there is very little chance I will get Win8.
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What about people which use like me, Windows 7 on notebook and on it they has virtual machines with Windows 8 ? 
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Windows 8 does seem to perform pretty well in a VMs.
John
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I use MacOS as primary OS, and Windows on a VM (for Visual Studio, SQL Server and IE). This machine is "just" a 2 Duo Core, so "just" 2 "single" cores.
After I make a new VM with Windows 8, MacOS had been freed 700MB of it's RAM, so my old W7 VM with 1GB of RAM now is a W8 with 1,4GB of RAM, and MacOS has more 300MB free. W8 is more agile on a VM than W7 (also with 1GB).
And now, weeks later, I'm using it in a SSD HD exclusively for windows VM as a secondary MacBook Pro HD. Sweeeet! 
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I Agree!
Nothing is Impossible, but sometimes it's hard to do
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That sounds like "I have Windows 8 on one of my machines" to me.
Soren Madsen
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Yes, you have right. I don't think about this option before
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Although I have tested windows 8 on a few development boxes and I see the OS is solid and boots much faster than windows 7, when the trial period ends I will not be upgrading any system until there is a way to fully turn Aero back on. I really hate the square windows no transparency look of the years past that has been implemented. I also do not like the split personality between the ModernUI and the desktop UI. Although as a desktop user I do not see any use of the ModernUI on a high end system with a large monitor. I do certainly not want my applications to use the entire display so I would prefer a way to totally disable the ModernUI and just go with the windows 7 desktop experience instead of the windows 2000 experience + ModernUI.
John
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John M. Drescher wrote: just go with the windows 7 desktop experience instead of the windows 2000 experience + ModernUI.
 for that ! I wonder how people love those opaque boring windows and colors!
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Dan Suthar wrote: I wonder how people love those opaque boring windows and colors!
Like buying a car for it's colors.
It's the engine that matters.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It's the engine that matters.
it does, but its "NOT ONLY" the engine what matters. Had it been so, people would be driving just an engine rather than a gorgeous car
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It's the engine that matters.
Then in my opinion everyone would all be using linux since it has a superior engine.
John
modified 23-Oct-12 9:18am.
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I might change my mind if Stardock released a new WindowBlinds with Win7 theme and runs on Win8.
The latest version of Start8 looks good tho.
shame MS added RemoteFX into Enterprise edition and not Pro. Otherwise I would be using Windows 8 right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8_editions[^]
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How about "Having a pirated copy of W7, and can't upgrade?" 
Edit: Okay, it was a joke. Still want to downvote me? Fine. Go ahead. 
modified 27-May-14 5:41am.
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I got my copy of Windows 8 today at http://www.windowsupgradeoffer.com/ for 15 euros. I had a legit version of Seven bought in early October, but it seems that anyway the installation process trusts your words and it checks nothing.
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...I'll be able to go directly to Windows 9. Approximately every other Windows version seems to be sh*t, and I have no great faith in Windows 8. On the other hand, I really like Windows 7, so I see no reason to not use that for as long as possible.
I'm also kinda tired of switching software versions all the friggin' time. In my opinion, versions change far too often. It would be ok if it was basically the same software with better features only, but Microsoft seems intent on reinventing the software every time they change versions as well... 
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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Let all the early adopters take the pain!
Or more likely, skip it and wait for Whine SP1 as I did with Vista and Wait SP1.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Wise words welshy!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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