[DUG] Planning PC upgrade - Delphi IDE options

[John Bird]

Its interesting nobody is keen to touch Windows 8...  I have only played around with it some, and once I found where they moved things to found it quite fine...eg on the Metro screen there is no search box – you just start typing, and the search is very good.   eg type “Resolution” and it shows how many documents, how many settings (etc etc) match that word.

Its getting pretty hard to find a PC without Windows 8 on it these days – so:

is there any real technical reason not use use Windows 8, ie why its worth the bother of putting on Windows 7 which is excellent.   Is there some manner (apart from unfamiliarity or aesthetics) in which Windows 8 is technically inferior to Windows 7?

I saw one Windows 8 PC, I7 processor, 256GB SSD and 1TB Hard Disk which booted from cold to Windows 8 login prompt in 7 seconds.   Like that kind of speed.:

John Bird
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