yeah 8.1 should be interesting ms is trying to do incrimental
releases rathan full version blowouts every 5 years.
I think thats good.
now lets see if they listen to their customer base.
My vote is to either split the desktop and tablet oses up or have
some sort of interface manager or something.
For example the blind need more sound cues than graphics.
we don't need tiles or metro apps really the desktop ones have served us fine.
we don't need to login with ms accounts, either well home users don't, anyway.
anyway I have always wandered how to use your computer if you have no
net or something like that, if you didn't have a local account you
would be stuck.
I just don't like the idea of logging to your cloud at startup
without a backup local account in case it dies.
At 07:54 AM 9/12/2013, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Well, with Windows 8.1 about to come out in a couple of months I'd say
just skip Windows 8 and go to Windows 8.1. I'm glad I didn't spend
much on a Windows 8 upgrade for my Toshiba, because I am looking at
going to Windows 8.1 for my primary Windows box which I use for
Windows software development. I always try to keep that system up to
date.
However, as for running a server with multiple operating systems it
can be done, but you need quite a lot of CPU power and ram to pull it
off effectively. I'd recommend a desktop PC with a 64-bit duel core
processor and at least 4 GB of ram, and even better if you hav say 8
GB or so on that box to play with. Since virtual machines seem to run
better on Linux I'd suggest using Linux as the Host operating system,
and run various flavors of Windows in VMWare Player in order to cut
down the system resources for the host. The only catch 22 is that
Windows 7 and Windows 8 really need direct access to your graphics
card, rather than emulated, so its not as good in that case. However,
it really depends on which OS you will be using most. If Windows 7
were your primary then use it as the host and everything else as guest
operating systems.
Cheers!
On 9/11/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
> well I still use xp for my old games and I will probably always use
> xp or have an xp system at least.
> win7 though is good and I have a 7 system.
> My basic home work for when I am not on the road ie gaming, etc seems
> to favor xp over 7 right now but once people like gma upgrade their
> stuff that may be behind me.
> The real reason I don't really hit 7 unless I need it is because I
> still have working xp system with better speakers than my 7 box
> though as I said its the older games I mainly play here.
> I do use 7 all the time.
> sadly though my network admin jobs for most things are 7 and 8 quite
> a lot of machines a third of them are still using xp so I also still
> use xp daily.
> my eventual hope is to get a server with windows on it and maybe have
> vms of linux xp and other oses or have them direct though I am not
> sure how I'd start one the server then be able to boot different
> vertual users but boot direct systems of the other stuff.
> either that or have a dedicated gaming box.
> the next thing I guess that will have to happen is going to 8 but I
> don't need the extra features.
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