1961TC4ME wrote:Given all the various headaches and issues I've read about just here on this forum alone concerning Win 10, to me it's become the modern day version of Vista but 100 X worse as far as I'm concerned.
My 2-1/2 cents worth: If you already have it, stick with your Win 7 Pro as long as you can folks until they either sort out this tanked Win 10 or come out with a truly new OS.
Marc
Hi Marc,
Yes we are also staying with Win 7 for now but someday that will end too and when it does the I think the best place to be is Windows 10 LTSB. LTSB stands for Long Term Service Branch and if I understand the Microsoft publications about it correctly, this is a regular Win 10 Enterprise kernel which does not expect to be updated with every update issued but lets the update time stretch into years BUT once you do decide it is time to update it will bring you completely up to date as of the date of the update. So it goes along with no update for a long time but if you do update it's going to take a while.
But for a Hauptwerk only computer you do not need to update the O/S unless there is a major update of Hauptwerk and then perhaps you should get completely current for both Hauptwerk and Win 10.
Since Microsoft says this is the last Windows as we know it, new releases will be yearly subscriptions even though it may still be called Win 10 version 10.x.x. 'Ocean Window' or something. If you are running Hauptwerk on a Consumer O/S (i.e. sharing the OS with other programs) expect updates and patches to be almost a weekly occurrence in the future and drivers that last a long time to be a thing of the past.
For example, Apple has already decided that I need a new iPhone and iPad as they have quit updating my iOS and my apps are falling rapidly by the way side. That is the app says you must update this app by such and such a date and the update tells you sorry you can not update the app because you do not have iOS xx and you cannot get iOS xx because your device is too old. (sigh)
Best regards,
Thomas