Anyone planning to migrate to Windows 8 on a desktop or notebook/laptop

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AwkwardSwine
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Re: what's the experience in upgrading to w8?
In reply to JPAdans, 8 months ago

JPAdans wrote:

I'm really interested in getting feedback on the upgrade.

Currently running happily on a recent i7 build, with win7x64 ultimate. I am planning to upgrade to win8 pro one of these days. Using LR4.2, CS6, Topaz, DxO ViewPoint, etc... usually all most recent versions. As for hw, a PRO9500 mkII, Wacom Intuos 5 touch, EOS5D classic and EOS5D3.

I'd like to hear from the folks who did that upgrade. Any issues encountered?

AwkwardSwine mentions w7 sw runs happily - is there anyone who ran into problems? any incompatibility issues?

Thanks!

You should be able to upgrade with very smoothly with your apps in place.  I did an upgrade of my loaded Win7 system with Lightroom, etc.  With the exception of security software which may have to be updated (Anti Virus, etc) everything should just work.  You can look at the Windows Compat Center website to see if any of your hardware is certified compatible by the maker, and if people have voted for it as working.  I looked for the Wacom and found the v4 listed as compatible, with a link to updated software.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/win8/CompatCenter/Home

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