Contrary to much of the naysaying I'm looking forward to W8. A new UI designed from scratch that's fully hardware accelerated and doesn't require developers write code to refresh the window with as little flicker as possible in non-Aero mode. A move towards managed languages for cross compatability with Windows Phone and…
i think workstation customers are in another Vista hovering position. the same thing that happened after everyone switched to winXP64. Vista came out and was completely irrelevant to workstations. winXP hardware went through its life cycle. microsoft was forced to coughed up another os that was acceptable to business as a…
I'm not a huge Win8 advocate. I've spent a good deal of time working in it (on another computer), and liked the general handling of the desktop mode (the mode that us artists will use 99.9% of the time). But there is something that I believe is being overlooked. The new UI is meant to be a "Start Button" replacement. Those…
I really can't see myself getting win8 at all. It's awful. The uni installed the dev version on a few test rigs and we literally had to scrub the drives to get rid of it. Also on that note mark, why haven't they got native support for multi-mon task-bars? There were literally hundreds of software options for getting it,…
I think I'm going to be outnumbered wherever I go but, I actually like the new metro or whatever they've decided to call it now. I'm still only running programs in desktop though. That being said though, I don't really see any reason to upgrade unless you get it for free or very cheap. I know some people have claimed that…
oh, ok there's this reply from a wacom rep in the other thread: http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11329#p44035 Please note that some of the effects (penflicks and ripple effects) come from Microsoft and should be controlled by Windows control panels´. (We can disable such effects for tablet aware programs only.)…
just working a day now with the upgrade. first impressions: i updated over my old system and apart from the display driver(manually updated from nvidia) everything works fine and got moved over. it's a hybrid system. a little weird in the beginning, but if you want your win7 stuff working this was propably their best…