On 6/7/2015 3:00 PM, kd4jzy@... [ui-view] wrote:
Is windows 10 going to be a smaller package to run uiview on the winbook 7?
Thanks, Randy/n4jzy
I'm not sure I would want to upgrade the Winbook to Windows 10, even if it was
possible and occupied less space on the flash drive.
UIview and it's various add-ons, including Precision Mapping 9 work perfectly
on the Winbook with Windows 8.1, if you add a 16 or 32 GB micro-SD card. With
a 32-GB card, I now have the UZ7HO Soundmodem soft TNC, Precision Mapping 9,
Microsoft MapPoint, Delorme Topo 10.0, UIview, APRSpoint, FLdigi, mmSSTV, and
mmTTY working perfectly on the TW-700 with Win 8.1. (UIview and the other
ham apps are small by today's standards; I installed all of them on the main
flash drive of the TW-700. I installed all of the space-hog mapping
applications, and created a UIview "Extra Maps" folder, on the added micro-SD
card which "automagically" becomes drive D: when inserted.)
I have imaged a TW-700 with all this ham software installed with Windows 8's
own backup utility to an external hard drive, and then restored it
successfully to three other TW-700s (overwriting the factory setup on each
device) with with no problems at all. These are going to used, along with
Bearcat 760 scanners, as APRS receive/mapping displays for a special event I am
working on. The micro-HDMI port on each TW700 will be connected to a 24-inch
flat panel monitor for the live mapping display. The TW-700s may also act as
multiple redundant igates.
This is a really slick way to carry a ready-to-run APRS setup to an event, and
is essentially the receive-end equivalent of the "ammo box tracker" concept at
the transmit end. [With mmSSTV installed, and the built-in dual cameras, the
TW-700 also makes a really nifty in-the-field live SSTV send/receive
terminal.]
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The real risk with Windows 10 is that it is going to be the last discrete
version release of Windows. Microsoft's plan is to CONTINUALLY push updates,
and endlessly change Win 10. (Rather than release specific service packs,
issue "10.point-something" updates, or distinct "new versions" of Windows.)
This constant live-updating will happen UNKNOWN to the user any time you are
connected to the Internet.
Sooner or later, some invisible update tweak is going to permanently break
UIview and cause it to quit working, perhaps because it doesn't conform to MS's
latest guideline for touch screen "apps". I.e. it will be some sort of
"Uiview worked yesterday, but for some reason doesn't work this morning"
failure.
Since the user is going to have NO CONTROL over this process, I would rather
keep the tablet on Win 8.1 indefinitely, where I KNOW UIview and it's plug-ins
work.
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