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Getalife2 · June 15, 2015, 3:01pm

Lydiot:

I don’t agree with that description on one level. I think what you describe has been the case for at least a decade, and Windows 8 was not an aberration, it was just misunderstood by the users. There was absolutely nothing in it that warranted the “uproar” that bloggers and opinionated people contributed to. Nothing.

That is especially true for people like us that spend most of the time in-application. For me launching Nuendo takes exactly as many key-presses on Win 8 as 7. And once I’m in the app there is zero difference. The desktop is there if I need it, all the apps are there and launch the same way if I need them. The only difference was that a start page was made out of the start menu. Hardly complicated to wrap one’s head around.

So yeah, Windows in a lot of ways has been far less cumbersome, but it’s been that way for a looong time, and I don’t see that as “changing places” recently.

A matter of preference. I am typing on Win 8.1. I wish it was Win 7. All my DAWs are Win 7. I see exactly zero advantage to Win 8, with some things being more cumbersome and fiddly to access quickly. It was supposed to be an upgrade. Where?

I have 10 point multitouch on my Win 7 DAWs, so no advantage there. Anyway, I’m happy for you about Win 8. However, since MS is reverting to the Start Menu, etc, I believe many people feel the way I do.

BUT, I did make an edit in my post above because I agree with you. I changed the sentence to “Apple and MS have changed places”.