X2 and Windows 8 in the same year?

I can't see much uptake for W8 in the audio recording community.  Twelve year olds probably want PCs to behave like their phones, I don't. 

Fine, so DAW's will sound better ........

But will we have install W8 specific drivers ??? THAT is the question to whichi've not seen any answers.

Cheers,
Jerry

I remember when the first iPhone came out. I knew a lot of people who ran out to jump on the bandwagon. It was a good concept but far from perfected.  That was in June of 2007. It wasn't until Samsung Galaxy S phone and shortly after the iPhone 4 in 2011 that the world had finally moved to the "touch screen" almost exclusively. I know four years doesn't seem long, but when talking about technology nowadays - that's forever. It's just been in the last year also that I have noticed almost everyone carrying around a tablet, but then again the first iPad was released in 2010 so my math tells me 2 years for it to really catch on and become readily available to the common public. 
When talking about technology that's damn near 20 tech years for something to really catch momentum. 
Windows 7 was available to the public in June of 2009, and I still see almost half and half of studios (those that don't run on Mac)  and home recording studios still on XP three years later. 
Again, Cakewalk didn't release Windows 7 ready interfaces until 2010 when at the same time the drivers became available. 
I believe that the company's we dump our money into will be late to adopt any new form of OS or Technology, just because they know it takes a while for the momentum to catch and for people to make the switch. Such as SONAR 8.5 users who have just recently switched to X1 like myself - waiting for all the kinks to be worked out. Or it could have been me fighting against change. 

Needless to say - It'll probably be 2014 before DAW's start to switch to Windows 8. 

 Windows 8 + X2 in the same year = recipe for disaster.

I won't be in a hurry to upgrade to windows 8

I have heard a prominent DAW builder say that the basic building blocks of WIN 8 will prove to be better for audio than WIN 7.
That sounds promising

I can't see much uptake for W8 in the audio recording community. 

I'm not so sure about that. I can definitely see a need for the touch interface. Would be nice to just put your finger on the faders to move them. I hate using a mouse. 

Best I know, it's still NT inside, version 8.0.  And that's compatible with the older non-NT versions of windows to the point that you can still navigate around the screen and get things done without even having a mouse most of the time. 

Support for touch-screen is inevitable. I would love to have a console view that I could drive with my fingers.  But I cannot conceive of any technical reason that 8 would handle the mouse any differently than its 7 predecessors. 

Best thing so far about Win 8 is Core handling...

Even Cake did a Video of X1 on Win 8 and showed a much more balanced use of multi-core CPU's...

That will translate to more stable audio handling, as you won't have to worry as much about overloading the
main CPU.