Re: Windows 8 experience -- PCTECH

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Definitely worth setting up a test VM, IMO.

For now I'd totally stay with whatever version of Windows you are
currently using for your dev environment. I'd say it is worthwhile to
at least become familiar with 8 though, since it will appear on client
sites eventually. There's a 30-day Windows 8 Pro trial available, and
it is a piece of cake to install, so why not?

Since speed was mentioned already, I'll throw in my $0.02 on that as
well. My own cripplingly severe speed issues on VirtualBox were
resolved by enabling > 1 CPU. Hopefully that will save someone else
some suffering. :)

The interface is drastically different, true! I held that against it
for some time, before resigning to the fact that it'll get easier as I
spend more time using it. :/

On 11/02/2012 01:00 PM, pctech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

from: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: [PCTECH] Windows 8 experience

Anyone got any thought on quirks, burps and performance of Windows 8 vs Win 7?

I only use Windows to run RDP, but am just wondering if it is worth setting up a new VM with Win 8 so that I'm not blindsided when encountering it on client sites.

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