[daniel1212]

In my tests with Win-10 I’ve gone back to pre-Win-7 Vista platforms and run the install. It loads fine, even on machines that choked on Win-8. When examining the prerequisites I found the requirement that Win-8 processors had to support PAE, NX, and SSE2 (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/what-is-pae-nx-sse2). I found no mention of this requirement in the Win-10 Prerequisites (They just say “look at the specs for Win-8”). I don’t know if this is by design or an omission from the Windows 10 Technical Preview.

Thanks for the substantive input. Yet i read that W/8 was better on older HW than Vista, while so far WTP seems to use less ram than W/8.

With the ever-narrowing support schema from Microsoft I find myself doing more to try to stay ahead of them (migration to Win-7 was particularly brutal for us).

Yes, but this upgrade should not be much of a problem, yet it hardly seems worth it. See my above comments on speech to text/commands, which i think has lots of potential.

[rockrr]

It is my opinion that Windows 8 is at best an entertainment operating system. It is a failure as a business class OS. Unless ones inclusive use of the computer is to surf the internet and read emails it isn’t going to cut the mustard. From my preliminary tests Win-10 might possibly accomplish what Win-8 can’t and will be the next major platform for business.

IMO Microsoft’s missteps have given Apple and Linux some great opportunities to make inroads on their monopoly.