My computer recently had several Windows updates, including going to 1709. What I've found so far is that SONAR is loading faster and running more smoothly; the tradeoff seems to be a longer shutdown time. Although I continue to experience the occasional SONAR glitch, there's nothing that wasn't happening before the updates.
 
Like many of you I've been focused on what happens if Windows "breaks" SONAR, but another possibility is that as Windows becomes more refined, SONAR will benefit from this instead of experience problems. This may fall under the "wishful thinking" category, but still, based on my current experience I'm not prepared to rule it out.
 
Although I'm getting up to speed on Studio One so I can work with future MIDI enhancements, there are still several types of projects where nothing does the job as well as SONAR...so I want to use SONAR for these types of projects, as well as finish legacy ones, for as long as humanly possible.

I agree but I recently picked up CUBASE at an excellent crossgrade price and also have Mixbus 32C n the event I am FORCED to move

For sure, you definitely need backup. All I'm saying is there's a possibility changes to Windows might improve SONAR instead of break it.
 
As just one example, SONAR can handle Bluetooth LE but the protocol itself is still young. If BLE becomes enhanced, then SONAR will just puts its hooks into that enhanced protocol, and may work better with BLE as a result.

Or the protocol becomes enhanced and Sonar gets hung up with new extensions it doesn't understand....

I appreciate your post @Anderton, concur 100% only to add that I have put ‘old’ software on my Windows 10 Professional laptop and built within via ‘compatibility mode’. I don’t know what will happen but sort of ‘see’ this like the way GigaStudio went.

That said sir, your presence here on this forum I view as a bit of a blessing given your background ~ hopefully you’ll stay with all of us as we forge our way into the future. I updated Sonar Platinum last night which included a few new things, content went where it chose to w/o asking but whatever. I intend to continue to use Sonar, why not?

My only wish would be that the CCC had an option to download ‘everything’ from my account to a hard drive one last time before the inevitable ~ the server going off which might be without notice. My goal is to ‘beat the clock’ hopefully and get everything installed on an older Core2Quad custom built machine as a dedicated studio machine. It’s a cross country trip though to get it out of storage...

*via the built with ‘compatibility mode’

hope you're right Craig
thanks for your continued input

That’s an interesting idea Craig. I’m with you too on using Sonar for what it’s good for. I have S1 3 Pro with a CS18 and RM32 and enjoying learning a matched set of tools with a somewhat clear future. I will use Platinum till the wheels fall off. That’s a pretty good position to be in.

I initially hit the panic button and started looking at Mixcraft and Studio One but you know I have a DAW that's 64 bit, supports VST3 and runs pretty seemlessly on the latest Windows 10 release.  I've got an image I can restore if an update kills it but I think that's unlikely.  I've run every windows 10 update for the last 2-1/2 years with only one problem in Sonar which occurred with Quicktime Video but MS fixed that within a week.  No-one else has a Pro-channel which is what all my mixes are based around now.  Sonar has also worked great for legacy stuff and Control Surfaces.  Thanks to Jbridge I can still use my Liquid Mix Compressors and thanks to AZCTRL I have control of everything with a BCF2000 and an AlphaTrack.  To be honest I was getting sick of installing updates every month I've easily got my $100 worth from the rolling updates.  I don't want any other features,  I just want to make some music now and Sonar still does that superbly as far as I'm concerned.    I hope a few others hang in there.

I hate when after you update sometimes Sonar shuts down unexpectedly and says file has been saved and crashed dump to C:/....