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http://www.zdnet.com/article/sticking-with-windows-7-the-forecast-calls-for-pain/

 
LOL - Good article.
 
There's not much reason to stick with Windows 7 over 10.
 
It's not like they redid the driver subsystem like they did with Windows Vista. 
 

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Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
While we continue to support Windows 7, updates are getting increasingly difficult when we upgrade our tools. SONAR now uses the latest Microsoft redistributables and the Microsoft installers are finicky about having all the updates for Win7 in place.
Windows 7 is now almost 7 years old.  Microsoft has already stopped Mainstream support as of last year. At this point Windows 7 is on life support until 2020. This means that only important and emergency fixes to Win7 will likely be issued. As time goes on, incompatibilities will likely creep in and may or may not be addressed by Microsoft in a timely fashion.
I thing its a wise idea to consider upgrading while you are ahead rather than be faced with a surprise one day in the not too distant future.

 
Have you ever seen OS usage statistics?

Windows 10 was 32% as of 15 minutes ago, but this fluctuates minute-by-minute...right now it's 35%. Guess people are tuning into their Friday night movies on Netflix...
 
https://www.gosquared.com/global/windows/10/#launch
 
FYI it was 12% 8 months ago. That's a pretty significant jump.
 
However...it's interesting to compare downloads, market share, and usage statistics. As of March Windows 7 had 52% market share, Windows 10 in second place with 14.15%...and Windows XP had more than Windows 8.1! But take a look at Steam, with this quote from Network World: 
 
"Steam analytics...gathers OS and other information from people using the Steam app. Steam has, for all intents and purposes, replaced GameStop and other retail outlets for selling PC games. A Best Buy employee even told me they dumped their PC games section because everyone uses Steam. So it's a good measure of consumer use.
And, according to Steam, Windows 10 is up to a 28.8% installed base, while Windows 7 is down to 42%. Windows 8.1 is hovering at 16.5%, and XP is effectively dead at 2.1%."
 
So pick whatever number you like, and you'll find someone, somewhere, who's willing to agree with you 
 
But what's also interesting is Windows 7 has had 5 years to gain market share, and had a fairly easy ride because of all the people who hated Vista (even though the updates turned it into something pretty close to Windows 7). W10 hasn't even been out officially for a year, but it also had the advantage of people hating Windows 8. 
 
Disclaimer: I thought the Amiga was really cool. Kinda got that one wrong, eh?

Yeah, my question was a bit rhetorical-sarcastic. The percentage is different for different groups. I'm sure, that Cakewalk people know more about that for their users. The thing is, are they read to drop windows 7 support, if for example 30%, or 20% of subscribers(aka members) still use it?

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Resonant Serpent
....upgraded my Win 7 to Win 10, but lost the use of my Lexicon PCM reverbs since they down't work under Win 10. 

 
Do you mean the Lexicon PCM VST Bundle? Mine works just fine under Win 10.
 

Spurred on by your statement, I've been doing some research. Haven't heard back from Lexicon, yet, but I've been able to gather some information. 
 
This is a quote that someone else got from Lexicon tech support:
 
"What issues are you experiencing. We’ve had success on windows 10 so far apart from a font issue that is causing unreadable presets. This has only happened on a few users operating systems and engineering is working on a fix now. I don’t have a release date yet."  
 
So, it looks like there's no real problem. 

Today I updated the command center then
- DL & installed all updates then
- lost my desktop shortcut Sonar Prof Icon
- tried to launch from the command center & got the following error message
 
can't start SONARPRO.exe system error
api-ms-win-crt-runtime-I1-1-0.dll                    is missing
 
Then reinstalled all of the Sonar Pro components parts again from command center.
Still no desk top icon & same error message
So re-booted computer - no change.
 
So if the issue is Windows 7 & I need Win 10 to install the new update how do I
a)  uninstall the updates & go back to my pre-update Sonar Prof - it worked just fine before the updates & I don't need em.
 
They are not in effect updates they are a disaster for me.

Others know more about this than me, but it seems in many cases you just need to keep the C++ libraries current. You don't have to update to 10, although at some point you'll have to...just like all the Mac people had to give up on System 9 and go for OS X, and all the Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.8 fans are realizing that their days with that OS are numbered.
 
It's Microsoft's and Apple's game, and they own the football. Both have gone to updating a single OS indefinitely, the only difference is that Apple still batches stuff up and does it all at once. So you need to decide whether you want lots of massive problems and then a period of calm after they're fixed (Apple), or a procession of small problems and quick fixes (Microsoft). Either one causes a disturbance, but comparing Windows 10 to El Capitan, I prefer what happened with Windows 10. YMMV.

Open the Cakewalk Command Center. In the left hand pane, right-click on Sonar Platinum, scroll over rollover, and choose which version you want to go back to.
 
If you want to upgrade to Windows 10, you should look at the Windows Update on your computer. Look under Optional Updates, not the recommended updates.

Resonant Serpent
Open the Cakewalk Command Center. In the left hand pane, right-click on Sonar Platinum, scroll over rollover, and choose which version you want to go back to.
 
If you want to upgrade to Windows 10, you should look at the Windows Update on your computer. Look under Optional Updates, not the recommended updates.

hey this is a bad deal all round for lots of people.
I have a genuine version of Windows 7 that came with the Gateway PC I bought.
About 3 yrs ago the registry got corrupted somehow & stopped the automatic updates & disabled the troubleshooter.
 
So I can't get the free upgrade to Windows 10
The error code is 0x80300113.
For past 3 yrs I've tried about 20 Microsoft recommended fixes for it but nothing works.
So my Windows 7 hasn't updated since service pack 1, it won't upgrade to Windows 10 & the troubleshooter won't work.
 
Now I find the new Sonar update won't work either.
Microsoft don't sell a Windows upgrade from Win 7 off the shelf pack so looks like only thing I can do is buy a whole new PC tower with Windows 10 loaded.
 
 

Craig is right.....change is hard, and sometimes forced
If you are still on windows 7 without keeping up with windows update...here is what seems to be working for me
go to Microsoft....get the VisualC++ 2015  redistributable from here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
download...install...reboot....go to your account..download the new version of Platinium....install offline and authorize.
 
Can't take the credit for this...many have supplied this info in the forums..just takes a lot of time to find...thank you all
Great support community
 

stonehedge
Craig is right.....change is hard, and sometimes forced
If you are still on windows 7 without keeping up with windows update...here is what seems to be working for me
go to Microsoft....get the VisualC++ 2015  redistributable from here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
download...install...reboot....go to your account..download the new version of Platinium....install offline and authorize.
 
Can't take the credit for this...many have supplied this info in the forums..just takes a lot of time to find...thank you all
Great support community
 

Thx - after the 2016.03 update disaster for windows 7 users I reverted Sonar back to it's pre condition so it works again now.
On your advice I have now attempted to install the VisualC++2015  from your link.
This won't work for me either.
I got error code 0xc8000247 Unspecified error