RE: XSI and Window 10, the bright future

2016-03-13 Thread Angus Davidson
The windows 10 Updates are very frustrating. I have had machines rebooting for 7 hours to install updates, and it will install some updates no matter what your settings are. Lets not also forget that occasionally an update seems to reset you privacy settings . I have also had it restart in the

Re: XSI and Window 10, the bright future

2016-03-13 Thread Andreas Bystrom
also keep in mind it's looking increasingly likely that microsoft will turn windows 10 into a subscription service. windows 10 is the first major release that is "free" so it seems like they are trying to get as many users onboard as they can before they start charging people on a monthly/yearly

RE: XSI and Window 10, the bright future

2016-03-13 Thread Sven Constable
Windows7 support is not discontinued. It runs until 2020. That includes security patches and updates. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of

Re: XSI and Window 10, the bright future

2016-03-13 Thread Jordi Bares
Its the perfect storm, XSI discontinued, Windows7 support discontinued (welcome virus and the like), Windows 10 privacy issues disaster and future upgrade obsolescence!! I wouldn’t move from Windows8 and would suggest to keep an eye on spare parts so you can stretch XSI as you think you need.

RE: XSI and Window 10, the bright future

2016-03-13 Thread Sven Constable
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

XSI and Window 10, the bright future

2016-03-13 Thread Fabian Schnuer Gohde
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