Just a few days ago, I downloaded all of my products without a hitch on a new(er) PC. If nothing else, I believe that for the nonce, were good. There may or may not be down time; I personally don't see them alienating the loyal Cake customer base. That's just not good business. Just my $0.22.

tobiaslindahl
 
A bit off topic, but why staying on win 8.1 ?  Windows 10 really is a great OS and far superior to 8.1. I think you could benefit from windows 10 in terms of stability and performance. Then again you might have valid reasons, just curious :)  

Because I have ZERO issues with Win 8.1x64, nothing calls home, ever. I have it locked down real tight. My new install will also. You know, if it ain't broke!

jpetersen
A date for what?
I'm not getting what's worrying the OP.

Well kind of like, We will be looking at a date sometime in early June to transition (or end) the CW Authorizations. This should give everyone ample time to to do what they need to do. NOT those words but that Scenario. Servers

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stratman70
Some people seem to forget that this is a business, not some guys doing all of us a favor. 

In the case of electronic activation of SPLAT etc. its all about doing a people a favor. There is no business here, just costs. Cakewalk Inc. has apparently evaporated, along with your license and contract. It's a pity you don't see the favor BandLab is doing you. 
 
We are at the moment on the edge of WW3, an EMP attack will fry the servers ... now there something real to worry about. 

Doing us a favor? Really? Just out of the kindness of their hearts..............Get real please..CW is a product and we are the customers........Plain and simple. That's just the way it is. 
 
I would rather worry about this than doomsday scenarios. Because then who cares about anything...........

Why don't you just transition to BL?  It's free, and it will do everything SONAR did, as well as be updated.  Someday the severs for CW will be shut down.  No one has any idea when, so why not assume it will be today and start your transition?  Life will be easier.

stratman70

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stratman70
Some people seem to forget that this is a business, not some guys doing all of us a favor. 

In the case of electronic activation of SPLAT etc. its all about doing a people a favor. There is no business here, just costs. Cakewalk Inc. has apparently evaporated, along with your license and contract. It's a pity you don't see the favor BandLab is doing you. 
 
We are at the moment on the edge of WW3, an EMP attack will fry the servers ... now there something real to worry about. 

Doing us a favor? Really? Just out of the kindness of their hearts..............Get real please..CW is a product and we are the customers........Plain and simple. That's just the way it is. 
 
I would rather worry about this than doomsday scenarios. Because then who cares about anything...........

Could be out of the kindness of their hearts, who knows. I didn't pay BandLab anything for SPLAT, did you ?

Try not to worry about things out of your control...
 
All software on a moving platform is subject to failure.  Take precautions, disk clone/backup and create.  All DAWs will die someday, this I'm sure of.

Bristol_Jonesey
Well I'm on Win 7 and staying there for the foreseeable future as there no Win 10 drivers for my interface

hey jonesy, focusrite say the 26 is win10 compatible: https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206849319-Windows-10-Compatibility

As I said I installed the latest version of Splat  on  every computer at home and even one at work. 
Those are running W7, W 8.1 and most W10. 
There is a performance differance that make W10 the winner if you have that option. 
 
I only stay with W7 on 2 laptops because laptops do not like upgades. 
 
I rolled back from W10 to W 8.1 on my studio DAW back in Dec after installing a new SSD  C drive and a fresh install of everything. The reason back then was W8.1 will not perform destructive updates like W10 does so less chance of it trashing Splat. That DAW is kept off line as well. I figured it will run as is for 5 -10 years. I'll be 75 years old! 
I have put that machine aside for now and transfered it's licences to a W7 Laptop set up that I will be using remotely. 
 
The other active DAW is my off the self HP desktop runing W10 and is always on line. 
It's not in the studio space but in our family room and I can work on stuff while being closer to my wife. I really notice the speed differance when I switch to the laptop. But it's of course an i5 and the HP is a i7.
 
So W 10 was a danger to Splat and still might be, But with the CbB version I am no longer worried at all.