I've only had Windows 8 running for a few days so still "breaking it in". I did an upgrade from Win 7 Pro 64 bit - and pretty much everything works fine.
 
I've found that if anything *doesn't* work - just uninstall and then reinstall. I did this with Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 (metro tiles didn't work until I reinstalled) and my MOTU USB MIDI driver. Also I had to reinstall a printer driver for my Canon Printer (on my "non music" partition).
 
Other than that - everything seems to work fine, but I'll let you know if that's not the case.
EDIT: I stuck start8 on too. It's handy and only $5.00. It gives you your start menu back...

Win 8: All I did was add a Start Button program (free) and I'm happy with it so far. No negative impact on X2 that I have experienced. There are no "hacks" to be done...whatever you mean by that. 

I didn't read the all 30 plus postings, but you need to consider the sound card drivers for win 8 as this effects Sonar's performance. You will need a sound card with good Win 8 drivers or your SOL

CJ

Sounds exciting... I'l be upgrading soon methinks, after I've bought myself a new 500gb SSD...

I played it safe and installed Win 8 Pro on another Hard Drive.  That was several weeks ago and have not booted to win 7 since then.  I had to search for lots of drivers and had to retire my Focusrite Saffire 24 DSP (no drivers) and purchase the Roland QUAD-CAPTURE but everything is 100% working.   Because I switched form the Saffire to the Quad-Capture, I cannot say if Windows 8 is the reason things work much better.  The octa-capture handles both Sonar and Windows audio/sounds without any gliches.  I never turn off networking (wired) and have no problems.  Generally I can work with the 48 samples buffer - around 6.5ms roundtrip latency.   Also I can run those metro apps and they never seem to get in the way ---- I guess because they are in a standby mode when the desktop / Sonar is active.  I hope my experience is not the exception.    

Anybody read this: http://news.yahoo.com/windows-8-terrible-says-usability-expert-jakob-nielsen-174300612.html
Doesn't bode well. I only played with the system in stores and at a friend's house. Speaking only for myself, I would have to do a lot of changes to bring it closer to what I'm used to working. I'm not exactly a computer noob, but I have to say that I hate when I buy something only to have to spend time tweaking it as soon as I take it out of the box.

Others on this thread seem to love it. I wonder if this isn't just a result of trying to see the glass half full on a product that they have bought and now have to deal with... sort of the way there were a lot of Vista champions when it first came out.

firefly9000


Anybody read this: http://news.yahoo.com/win...nielsen-174300612.html

Doesn't bode well. I only played with the system in stores and at a friend's house. Speaking only for myself, I would have to do a lot of changes to bring it closer to what I'm used to working. I'm not exactly a computer noob, but I have to say that I hate when I buy something only to have to spend time tweaking it as soon as I take it out of the box.

Others on this thread seem to love it. I wonder if this isn't just a result of trying to see the glass half full on a product that they have bought and now have to deal with... sort of the way there were a lot of Vista champions when it first came out.

That sounds authoritative and well done yet how is it that his results are so different from my own?  I think the answer is in the text where he says "Windows 7 fixed problems with Vista". Not exactly unbiased.  True that Windows 7 was an improvement over Vista but fixed problems? I wonder how much he really knows about OSs. 

As far as tweaking goes I think we all engage in it to a lesser or greater extent in order for the OS to feel more like our own.  Windows 8 is very tweakable.  Keep in mind I didn't need to go very deep to have it my way.  

Here is a very different take on Windows 8.

daveny5


Win 8: All I did was add a Start Button program (free) and I'm happy with it so far. No negative impact on X2 that I have experienced. There are no "hacks" to be done...whatever you mean by that. 

daveny5 & jbraner
 
Lol.. Yep, it's a small thing, just adding the start menu back (free or $5)...
 
But it's kinda like getting a car where the manufacturer does NOT provide you the steering wheel upon purchase.
 
Sure you can go to any auto store and buy any steering wheel you want. But you sort of start to doubt the sanity or competence of the engineers if they forgot or thought such an essential concept, a steering wheel for example, was NOT necessary... I think you get my point.

First the start menu is there. Its called Start.  It can be customized and it works well. You don't need the old start button.  I have Classic Shell yet I find it not as needed as I thought. 

Because something is new or different doesn't mean its worst automatically. It might be a better way. 

swone


ALL MY PLUG WORK §§ i've got uad card working good waves 9 in 64bis ..everything is like win 7 it's more quick 
but roland don't have the drivers for is a-500 pro or quadcapture 
i've got a win8 pro 64bits version 

I don't know if you've got it sorted yet but there are Quad Capture drivers for Win8 on the US site, they are not on the UK site so maybe they are not on the French site either.
 
So here ya go...
 
http://www.rolandus.com/products/details/1166/downloads
 
On Windows 7 the previous 1.5.0 version seems to work better than this (1.5.1) W7/W8 version but obviously if you want it to work on W8 then this is the way to go.