To me there really isnt a choice. 8 or 8.1 with a start menu replacement is upgraded windows 7.
I haven't seen anything Metro in months. Just disable all of the nonsense and its all good.
That may be a bit aggressive though it is really difficult to estimate without further info. In my experience, SSD drives are just not comparable to mechanical drives when it comes to running multiple Virtual machines. With a mechanical drive, if you do something with any I/O intensity and...
I am sure this has been checked but make sure the VM is set to allow drag and drop and copy and paste from the VM Machine Settings/Guest Isolation menu.
Completely off this topic, but can anyone explain how my original post has been duplicated on other forums? I didnt post these:
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/46774-Windows-8-1-Upgrade-Mandatory?p=779896#post779896...
This is from the Microsoft Blog dated July 30 2013:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/lifecycle
"Windows 8 customers will have two years to move to Windows 8.1 after the General Availability of the Windows 8.1 update to continue to remain supported under Windows 8...
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241230/Microsoft_mandates_Windows_8.1_upgrade
Support will end for 8.0 after 2 years.
Personally, I am a little shocked by this.
8.0 to 8.1 is not a service pack and I believe the update is closer to a recovery install of the OS (correct me if I am...
Ram and disk subsystem are the key. Grab some memory and an SSD to put the VM's on. A box with VM's running on an SSD, and 16GBs of ram should be able to run 6 maybe 7.
It also may depend on what exactly the VM's are doing. My above estimate is assuming you are just trying to run the VM's. If...
I agree with the above poster. Get Windows 8, slap Start8/Classic Shell etc etc on it and profit. If you want to play with Metro it is there. If you want to get some serious work done you have a full windows 7 desktop experience.
I would just leave it alone and ride it out. If you start having an issue then do something. Installing Linux is a good idea but most users aren't too crazy about having to learn something new.
Also, if you go the Linux route, I have been playing with Linux Deepin and have enjoyed it...
I am curious, beyond the license issue, have you looked at the differences between the domain setups? I have done some domain work but nothing like what you are attempting and would love to hear how you are planning to get it done. Are you going to just use the 2008 box GP objects and force them...
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