Positive sentiments from all, I have had the dev preview at work for ages, but never got round to it at home...
Worst thing Is I do this for a living, having made a career running a large uk PC dealership, and now I just look after few select clients, I don't normally have lots of test kit around anymore as I find a use for most of it. The storage sub-system appeals to me, having used a linux type flex-raid previously I just need it to be faster and it should be now its embedded in the OS, quite like the metro front end too, I do lots at the same time and involve myself in social networks (ahem!). Windows 7 worked for me since 9th January 2009 well before the service packs, and has been excellent ever since, so hoping this next version follow in its footsteps Will suck this one and see..... p.s. see there was a reason I bought his touch enabled monitor.... wonder if we can persuade Flex-Radio to create a Metro front end to PowerSDR (touch is really clumsy at the moment) hi hi 73 Steve -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Al K0VM Sent: 01 March 2012 21:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Windows 8 On 3/1/2012 12:53 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Robert Costa, KB6QXM<[email protected]>wrote: > >> All, >> >> Considering that the Windows 8 is out there for download, I would >> think that if you install it into another partition and do a multiple >> boot, then no harm or foul. The user would have to reinstall all of >> the other software that supports PSDR, but if people test it now, >> then both Flex and the other application developers will have time to >> develop their code to be compatible with Windows 8. Windows 8 will be >> released by the end of this year, like it or not, so it is a good >> time for official or unofficial software testers start testing and >> seeing what breaks or what does not break. >> > - It is a year away. > - Like all new OS's from Microsoft, it will be unsuitable for use prior > to them releasing Service Pack 1, making it more like 2 years away. > > People forget that an OS is just a set of services that allow other > applications to run. In that, and in spite of the releases of Windows > XP, Vista, and 7, we still have not moved appreciably beyond the real > functionality provided by Windows 2000. > > So, why rush? Let someone else suffer first. Well I, for one, am glad that someone is stepping up to be the pioneer that gets the arrows before I have to suffer. Isn't that what Beta's are for.. Win8 may be month/years away but We/Flex may know where the rough edges are when it gets here, thanks to the pioneers. OTOH, the pioneers should not expect that Flex will resolve PSDR/Win8 issues before WIN8 is real. AL, K0VM _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for viruses by www.epagency.net If you consider this email spam, please forward it to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for viruses by the Email Protection Agency For more information please visit http://www.epagency.net ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
