Wasn't I supposed to be all gloomy about newfangled stuff ;-) Well, I currently work on audio related things and just read an interesting article about Windows 8 and some benchmarks: http://blog.cakewalk.com/windows-8-a-benchmark-for-music-production-applications/
I can't see any reason for doom and gloom to be honest. Looks more like a continuation of Vista->Win7 to me. I worked from early on with Vista 64 and found it much better than its reputation - and much better as XP in fact. Win 7 improved it a lot in interaction speed, memory needed, multicore use etc. Much smoother experience. Now from what I read Win 8 goes on with that. I agree with the sentiment that there is space for a real pro OS, but this space exists for a long time now. I wasn't surprised with OSX going the way of the app, was quite a lot more surprised when Windows did it and just couldn't believe some of the Linux things I saw... Should somebody finally resurrect BeOS? ;-) But then again: What most people do with computers can probably be done on a tablet or laptop. I can actually see us head back to Silicon Graphics days, with real high end pro machines becoming something special again. In a way this is natural if you think about it: why should everybody and his mom working on basically the same machines as you? I personally plan to do a full fresh install as soon as Win8 is available - finally on a SSD. Should be snappy. And keep the Win7 Partition as a fallback. Cheers, Tom http://www.screendream.de
