yeomanspc wrote: > I read the other day that Windows 7 support ends in January 2015 - > frankly, I find it hard to believe, but I'll be going with Windows 8.1 > from here-in.
Well Windows 7 is 5 years old by now... and Windows 8.0 is 2 years old... Windows 7 is still good and solid and will have driver support for some years to come. Since 2009 it have received various functionality updates, most notably the Platform Update to the graphics system required to support IE10. But will it get IE12 and DirectX 12 for example? not sure Windows 8.x... besides all the touch malarkey, offers many improvements that can be overlooked; - faster boot - native USB3 support - UEFI BIOS support - lower power consumption; cleaned up the internals so that the PC can stay longer at lower power levels - redesigned printer handling - all graphics 2D+3D are run hardware accelerated; this lead to the Platform Update for Windows 7 - lower memory usage - ... All in all a sleeker Windows... when Toms Hardware did a Browser Grand Prix comparing the various browsers on Windows 7 and 8 they could clearly see that all the browsers performance improved. Main: Receiver (Audiocom) -> Beresford Caiman+ (Gatorized) -> Carver A-500x -> B&W 704 Office: Receiver -> Luxman L-210 -> Stax SR84 Pro -> Beresford Bushmaster -> Superlux HD668B Server: A8-5500, 4 GB, SSD+ 2*1 TB, Win8 w. SBS 7.9.0 (SQLite w. High Mem) Tied together by D-Link DIR-655 + DGS-1008D ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30502 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102060 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
