Will Win7 64 be available for purchase with a custom buld for the next few months?

Will Win7 64 be available for purchase with a custom build for the next few months?

Or is it going to disapear quickly as soon as Win8 retail is released?


Thanks.

best regards,
mike

I just talked to a computer guy and he seem to think that Windows 8 was about Oct. 26th and then I do not know what that computer business will do with the computers they sell.

Thanks.

best regards,
mike

Thanks.

I've been putting off getting a fresh new system because the old one works well.

Still, I'd like to see what all the extra power does for opening up new modes of work flow.

Every time I think I'll do it I buy another guitar or microphone etc.

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't about to *sleep* through the end of a sweet spot for hardware/software being matched well.

At some point I'll just wake up and order one to buy a little more future proofing.


Thanks again.


best regards,
mike

I've had the beta versions including the "consumer preview" version installed on a PC.  The only thing I can say is "yuck".  I won't be upgrading my production systems to Win 8 for the forseeable future.  I will install it on my "test" system as I do part-time PC support and need it as I know at least one client that is going to upgrade to it.

Microsoft seems to have "off" Operating Systems, one will be good, the next not so good, the next good, etc.  I suspect Win 8 will be one of the "off" operating systems.   I could go back further (my first dealings with Microsoft was DOS 3.0), but Win 98 was not so good, Win 98SE was good, Win ME not so good, Win XP good, Vista not so good, Win 7 good.

I went from XP 32 bit (which I hated leaving) to Win 7 64 bit.

I am happy with the jump.

Clifford

As far as scuttlebut goees in the gossip column, Windows 8 has a kill switch in it, and if the government or anyone wants to stop your computer from being on the Internet due to some security event they can shut down your computer or something like that. I fail to see why Microsoft still thinks that it owns your PC. Sure there is priracy but I and a lot of other people do not do that.

why did the cake guy in the blog seem to imply win8 was going to be more efficient, etc?  After reading that, from his perspective, it'd seem like you'd want to have win8 over 7

Let us know how it works out.

:-)

By slart's reckoning my copy of win 95 is worth a fortune, no?

I doubt anyone was refering to a Mac Back Pro as a toy. Apple's cleaned up the low end computing on iPads and iPhones and MS wants that market.

If MS and Apple can deliver the toys as well as the high end applications it will be good for all. When the preformance of higher end applications such as DAWs, video editing, CAD and GIS to name a few start to suffer because the OS is optimised for Facebook and Angry Birds, we will all suffer.

Apple has bombed with the new maps app, so they are fallible and put out "bad software" just like the competition they does and they infer that they don't....... I have an iPad3 and the updated iOS6 and the new Apple map app. I don't use that for turn by turn directions. But it is not very good compared to the Google that was installed.

I hardly think my MacBook Pro is a toy! It's a powerhouse that does nothing but pound out video after video and oh yeah, NEVER crashes.

No the MacBook Pro is not a toy. And given that the operating system can be designed around a motherboard that is fully defined to the developer, that the peripherals must all meet Apple's standards and that the software must pretty much all be Apple certified, it is not surprising that it rarely crashes. The iPad is primarily a toy for most users, however, and is outselling the industrial strength machines in the Apple fleet by orders of magnitude. Apple could lose their real computer business entirely and still be hugely profitable.


Until recently, Microsoft has not been a computer builder, but an operating system monopolist, and somewhat less successful application developer. Lately, Microsoft has been suffering from a probably terminal case of Apple-envy, and has responded by trying to copy what it sees as Apple advantages. So we have the developer of the de facto universal operating system, requiring driver certification for add ons, certification for software etc. These are things that will make life easier for MS but maybe harder for the host of hardware and software developers who have fed at the Windows trough so successfully. By entering into direct competition with these commensal entities via production of their own tablets, Microsoft has found another way to get a leg up on the competition.

In trying to integrate an operating system that will look good on a tablet, and host a multitude of silly (but profitable)  little "apps," with a universal OS for serious computing, however, Microsoft is in danger of throwing out the baby with the bath. Clearly that is what most of the market wants. If Microsoft runs after this market and tries to out-Apple Apple, to the detriment of "serious" computing, it does not bode well for Windows based computing, or for the variety and innovation that a sort-of open OS has provided for the past few decades.

Thanks for posting that link Scott.

best regards,
mike






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