petal wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 12:19 am
Well, even though I have delayed the upgrade as long as possible, Windows 7 (which I am currently running) will stop being supported by Microsoft in 2020. I guess that software developers, including all major DAW etc. will stop supporting windows 7 as well. So I/we have to upgrade to windows 10, since it makes no sense upgrading to windows 8 comming from windows 7.
IMO it´s unimportant when they stop support of Win7 in 2020.
I myself I JUST upgraded to Win 7 from Win XP,- and even my Win XP machine works being connected to the web and never catched a virus or malware.
MANY software developers supported Win XP for a very long time and I think that won´t change w/ Win7.
Also,- for Win XP, MS 1st discontinued support for the "Home" versions and continued support for "Pro".
I guess that will happen again w/ Win7.
I always use Pro,- and now waiting for SCOPE 7.1,- I´ll freeze my latest PC build on Win7 Pro 64, use it w/ SCOPE/XITE mainly and Reaper in addition.
I expect Cockos/ Reaper supporting Win7 for a very long time since they still support WinXP.
There will be another machine I´ll use for SCOPE PCI, possibly in 32Bit,- and a 3rd one I´ll use w/ RME hardware,- maybe a Win10 laptop running Phead Reason since I still have a licence.
Bud