Windows 10 is coming....

[mikeyd]

Windows 10 is coming in late 2015.
Wonder what type of impact it'll have on us.
According to reports it will be free for users of Windows 7 and 8 so it will be interesting.

[Andreuz]

Windows 10 is coming in late 2015.
Wonder what type of impact it'll have on us.
According to reports it will be free for users of Windows 7 and 8 so it will be interesting.

I am really surprised it's not sooner. Not surprised it will be free. Microsoft has had zillons of complaints from Windows 8 users against the horrific, un-friendly interface design.

[enigmahack]

I ran the Windows 10 Public Beta preview for a while and honestly, I think it's the perfect blend of 7 and 8.1

The biggest thing I didn't like about 8 was the whole start-menu fiasco, which while was somewhat fixed with the 8.1 update... But it was still missing a lot and right-clicking to get your menu items was weird to get used to. The faster kernel however was absolutely welcome.

Windows 10 is a nice "Tock" cycle amalgamation with some of the best features of each. I'm very happy with using it, except for the frequent blue screens because of the whole unsupported driver/new kernel/beta state of the product.

I'm definitely upgrading my systems to 10 though when I can, as long as my DAW still works in it.

[mikeyd]

Yup...that's what I'm wondering. If DAW's and everything KRONOS will work with it. I don't think it'll be an issue but we'll see.

[StephenKay]

What happened to Windows 9?

(I guess they figured since Apple was at 10, they needed to get there fast.)

Geez, I hope all my software products work on this without major hassles - that's all I need!

[jeebustrain]

What happened to Windows 9?

(I guess they figured since Apple was at 10, they needed to get there fast.)

Geez, I hope all my software products work on this without major hassles - that's all I need!

this is one of the more popular rumors:

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Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form

if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))
{ /* 95 and 98 */
} else {

and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.

[Pedja]

Hello girls and guys,
I have to put my 5. cents about Win 8.1 x64. I have involved in PC technology since 1987. when I have bought my first PC (XT 8 MHz 8088 processor). Since that I used all OS from DOS 2.0 to Win 8.1. I am sorry but I have to say that last OS (win 8.1) is worst OS in history of MS. In many forums you can see a similar opinion. It's not only because interface it's meanly because bugs that MS don't clean in update 1, update 2 and I don't have a nerves to install update 3 (many complains about OS crashes after update 3). Main bug for my point of view is catastrophic working with external USB 3.0 HDD (Many complains about that before update 1 but nothing happened since today about that). MS ignored all this and continuing working on Win 10 (They don't use 9 because of Win 95, 97 and 98 and 98 SE). It's not without reason that Win 10 will be free of charge for license user of Win 8.0 and 8.1 (not Win 7, they will have to pay some money for upgrade to Win 10). I didn't try Win 10 PE, but I hope that we will have more lucky with this. If you thinking to install new OS don't install Win 8.1, my suggestion is Win 7 SR1 X64. In the meantime I really hope that Korg will make x64 editor and update ver. of driver. Thanks for your attention and good luck in future with your Kronos, new OS and DOW's.

[scottgblood]

Hello Everyone,

As a software geek I can answer some of the questions...

@StephenKay

What happened to Windows 9?

(I guess they figured since Apple was at 10, they needed to get there fast.)

Good thoughts, but a bit wrong. The primary reason for this is because a lot of older software that still works fine on Windows 7 and 8 does a version check by looking for the number 9 to decipher which version of windows they are running, i.e. windows 98, 95 etc etc. it was decided by Microsoft at a very early stage using 9.0 would cause issues, hence 10.00, this was discussed at the windows insider developers conference quite a while back.


@mikeyd

Windows 10 is coming in late 2015.
Wonder what type of impact it'll have on us.

I have been testing windows 10 for about 2 months now, both in a commercial software development team and in my own studio at home and have had no issues at all, one huge thing I have seen which made a big difference to me is windows now have an option to not enumerate device drivers (midi, usb etc etc) this means rather than every time I unplug my King Korg it saying midi device 1, 2, 3 etc etc you can now force it to keep the same name regardless of port changes, which in turn has stopped ableton live from getting confused as hell and thinking the instrument has gone.

Also one of the biggest changes for a music creator I like about windows 10 is the ability to hot swap devices between ports and for it to automatically take any settings from the previous port to the new port and vice versa and it seems ableton is already detecting this.

Thanks.

[lotty1]

What happened to Windows 9?

(I guess they figured since Apple was at 10, they needed to get there fast.)

Geez, I hope all my software products work on this without major hassles - that's all I need!

I hope so too

[Synthesizerplayer]

What happened to Windows 9?

That's the way they count at Microsoft

Remember Windows 1,2,3 then 95, 98

[enigmahack]

Hello girls and guys,
I have to put my 5. cents about Win 8.1 x64. I have involved in PC technology since 1987. when I have bought my first PC (XT 8 MHz 8088 processor). Since that I used all OS from DOS 2.0 to Win 8.1. I am sorry but I have to say that last OS (win 8.1) is worst OS in history of MS.

You clearly never used Windows ME, have you?

[GregC]

Windows 10 is coming in late 2015.
Wonder what type of impact it'll have on us.
According to reports it will be free for users of Windows 7 and 8 so it will be interesting.

thank you for the warning

[StephenKay]

Hello Everyone,

As a software geek I can answer some of the questions...

@StephenKay

What happened to Windows 9?

(I guess they figured since Apple was at 10, they needed to get there fast.)

Good thoughts, but a bit wrong.

That was a joke.

The primary reason for this is because a lot of older software that still works fine on Windows 7 and 8 does a version check by looking for the number 9 to decipher which version of windows they are running, i.e. windows 98, 95 etc etc. it was decided by Microsoft at a very early stage using 9.0 would cause issues, hence 10.00, this was discussed at the windows insider developers conference quite a while back.

OK, makes sense - but aren't there better ways to test for the operating system version? I guess that doesn't mean people used them...

[SanderXpander]

Thanks for that info, Scott, I'm really happy there have finally been some improvements in this area. Do you have any changes in the maximum number of midi devices too?
And I suppose it's too much to hope for an audio overhaul akin to CoreAudio on OSX? Too bad WDM never really made it.

[scottgblood]

Yeah there are loads of better ways from reading the registry to API calls alas back in the 90s when ini files were still around and windows version numbers went something like 90.3.90864 Build 10874 it made life much easier to just look if started with a 9.

The crazy thing is that if u queried the windows 95 and 98 API you would get either 4, 5 or 6 as the major number depending on the flavour of windows it was running.

Geek moment over
Cheers