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Originally Posted by frahse
Help me with my thinking here.
Is that a reasonable plan?
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Perfectly reasonable...
...if you figure you're going to move to Win8 at some point.
(And you don't necessarilly need to wait for the first official Service Pack--just check the more reputable review sites like Anandtech to see if there are any show-stoppers and when they are addressed.)
You can also do what Harry and a zillion others are doing and try the Preview, even if its in a Virtual Machine environment.
Most of the nay-saying about Win8 is really coming from the Corporate side of the PC world and those folks *always* whine about GUI changes. (Not without reason--they typically have hundreds/thousands of machines to upgrade and users to retrain. But if it were up to them, we'd all be using DOS 15.1.
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Check this from April 1997:
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/feature/19...ills-adventure
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What many Windows 3.1-based businesses are waiting for is a good, solid reason to move.
"We're beginning to see resistance to Windows 95 break down and a move to NT. It can't be long before Microsoft says enough to the legion of Windows 3.1 users," says Jeff Jones of UK PC manufacturer Carrera.
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(Note that the whining came from Win3.1 users--not even Win3.11, the dominant release before Win95. Just as the majority of Win8 gripes come from XP users.)
Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 had similar "issues" mostly because MS moved graphics drivers down to the Kernel "endangering" stability.
(shrug)
Windows servers many customers so any change is certain to rub somebody the wrong way. So Win8 nay-saying is just business as usual. They'll get over it. Eventually.