On 8/4/2015 3:00 AM, lloyd mitchell lmitchell@... [ui-view] wrote:
If you are running Win7 now, I'd go with it. No real reason to change to
Win8 or 10 (at least until more is know about Win10 and its many bugs)
I've already seen folks complaining about a delay start bug on legacy
software and UI-View which is legacy also
It's not just the early adopters' headaches. One also needs to consider that
Win 10 will be a moving target changing ENDLESSLY with FORCED updates!
Microsoft has stated that Win 10 will be the last discrete version of Windows
ever. They will be endlessly evolving it with updates, rather than new major
versions. These updates will be FORCED into your system , with no choice to
review and opt out of them like previous Windows versions.
(There have already been a chorus of complaints, since the Jul 29th release, in
the computer/tech media about forced Nvidia video driver updates that have
broke numerous installations. )
Unless you disconnect a Win 10 system PERMANENTLY from the Internet (which
would render UIview useless as an igate), you will be dealing with an endlessly
moving target. I.e. just because you got UIview working with Win 10 this week
won't mean it will work a week, a month or a year later.....
I suspect we will be soon seeing some sort of tricky firewall add-ons that will
black-hole requests to Microsoft Internet addresses, while allowing
communications elsewhere. There are already third-party utilities to remove
the nagware to update to Windows 10 that MS has stealth-loaded into millions of
Win 7 and Win 8 systems in the guise of a "security update". The most
ironically-named one is called "I_DONT_want_Windows_10.exe" .
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