I have no 'deep' knowledge of windows internals besides what sysadmins used to have. Usually windows is *extremly* backward compatible. Software that was designed for WindowsXP is usually running fine with win7, 8 and 10. Depends on the software of course but XSI is running fine with windows10 actually (as I was told. I didn’t use win10 by now).
Besides this, Windows7 will have extended support until 2020. Win8 until 2023 and win10 until 2025. That means if you're running XSI with win8 you will able to do so until 2023. I will use XSI for at least the next five years in production and I don't see any reason why the OS should stop me from doing that. I have to admit, that I'm running win7 and will do until it get dropped my MS in 2020. Just because it works very good here. sven From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Fabian Schnuer Gohde Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 6:48 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: XSI and Window 10, the bright future Hi, I've got machines with Win 8.1 Pro at the moment and with the free upgrade "deadline" approaching I'm thinking wether not not to take the plunge to Win10 during the summer. My main concern apart from privacy issues is that given the fact that there will now be continuous rolling windows upgrades that XSI will cease to function one fine morning. Much the same way that some programs stop working with MacOSX updates. And no-one will provide updates to fix that. I'm mostly happy with Win8.1+ClassicShell but the fact that M$ and Intel want upcoming hardware to require new Windows is perhaps a reason to update. I'm still looking to use XSi for another 3-5 years. Does anyone with more knowledge of Windows internals and XSI dependencies have an opinion on the likelyhood of M$ messing with something that XSI needs? Thank you, Fabian
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