From what I've read (not personal experience), <2013 versions *sometimes* run on Windows 8.x. It seems to depend on drivers more so than the OS itself, but I may be wrong. Some people seem to be able to get them run without any dramas, and others can't even get the program to run in the first place. YMMV The main benefit…
cheers for that, that will come in handy should we get windows 8 at some point and might explain why the user feedback is so diverse. for the first team members however, we have now settled on windows 7 already.
thanks for the replies guys! worrying that experiences seem so different but i think while we would fancy going with a recent windows release over a five+ years old one, it appears the safe bet is to just run windows 7 and not even concern ourselves with the problem. while the initial batch of our machines will be…