SWEEEET!!! Thanks Noel :-)

 I can understand the apprehension to upgrade as opposed to a fresh clean install. I have three computers one was an XP system and the other two were running Vista one of those was my DAW,two of them are 64 bit. I picked up a three license install disk from Microsoft for a really good price Win7 home 64 or 32 bit option. The  upgrade installations  of all three went off without a problem. I am convinced that if you have no issues with your present OS then an upgrade isn't a problem.

 I feel I saved a lot of headaches by not opting to reload all of my drivers and software again. If I were starting from scratch then a fresh install would have been my first choice,but for those of us with a lot of software  relocating all of those serial numbers and codes /re organizing file locations can be a real pain .

 If you are using Vista it's your call but with the approach of win 8 Win 7 might come down in price and Win 8 for 69.00 is very reasonable IMO.

 I am not adding anything touch screen to my machine in the near future nor am I adding "apps" which seem to be one of the points of focus in Win8. Win 7 should play well with X2 for a long time to come.

  I ran Sonar in Vista successfully for a long time and it seems that it will play ok with vista now but if it were me I would have no desire to keep with a program that 1. Is no longer going to be supported and 2. was probably one of the biggest bungles by Microsoft in a long time in terms of reported user problems. Personally it worked ok for me but with a rewritten X2 who knows how it will behave?

I wouldn't want to be sitting at the end of a three week  track session and have a problem that blows it all away.

 I'm sure there are some horror stories of upgrading, maybe I was fortunate but I think even a side install would get you there and reasonably.Keep both OS if it makes you queasy to upgrade.JMO

CakeAlexS


"Lets be honest here... if you have xp or vista you simply should not have purchased X2 in the first place.. the system requirements for win7/8 is clearly marked."


How this statement can be interpreted as rude is beyond me. These are clear facts (you're lucky it worked at all, but I'm glad in all of your cases it did, if only temporarily). I hope Apple users won't be offended by saying this won't run on their systems either, and if they have bought it they shouldn't have.

Thank you Alex..you read my post correctly... :)
 
When a product has system requirements of win7/win8, any purchase by an xp/vista owner is clearly at the owners risk... hence the choice of the words "should not" not "must not" or "cannot"..
 
 

I'm unclear.  Is a Vista 64 to Windows 8 upgrade going to be simply a matter of running some kind of "Upgrade.exe" disk or download I will purchase from Microsoft?  A half hour or so process?  No reinstalls of other programs?

Because I once tried an upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 and gave up and got a refund from Microsoft for the attempted upgrade.

If it is not this easy, this is a deal-breaker for upgrading to X2.  My Vista computer suits me fine for another year or two.

Jerry here's a link (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVOS1_DRzLs

Well, some of us only updated to Win7 from Vista (a perfectly decent OS once they'd got the first service pack out) in the last couple of weeks.....

Why now? Two reasons. Sonar X2 and SSD support. And time to build a new PC in any case :-).

As for Windows 8, me, I'll be waiting until after they get service pack 1 out.

And until I can see what hardware is and isn't supported and how well/quickly it's supported.

I'll grab my cheap copy of 8, but it's not getting installed until I - and it - are good and ready.

By the way - aren't the cheap Win7 to Win8 upgrades only available to people with OEM copies of Win 7 - i.e. supplied pre-installed on the computer or if you bought an OEM ("system builder", not "retail") version to install yourself?

I thought it was all copies of Win8. But maybe I will be corrected.

> I'll grab my cheap copy of 8, but it's not getting installed until I - and it - are good and ready. 

Sounds like a good ploy, I'm wondering though if there's a time limit to install.

Jerry here's a link (video):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVOS1_DRzLs 

You're joking, right?

Nope.

But maybe you're find this funnier.....
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1031378
 
(All part of the service).

Windows 8 Pro bought and downloaded. £28. I'll install on a partition away from my audio setup for now. Baby steps.