FSX and Windows 8

[rick2519]

Stefaan,
Since I made this post I had a brush with Microsoft. My wife's laptop, newly upgraded to Win7, decided to not accept the activation. I finally contacted M$ about the problem and was pleasantly surprised with the visit. I spent the better portion of 4 hours with a technician in India. He was incredibly helpful, walking me though areas of Win7 that I didn't know were there until finally the system allowed me to insert the OEM disk and reinstall the OS. Like XP this reinstall actually repaired the fault and the OS was fixed.

During our conversation I asked him about Win8. He said that in his opinion and the opinion of several other techs working with him, XP is the king of OS systems still and that Win7 looks to take it's place as a superior OS. He said that at this point Win8 has too many flaws that may or may not be fixed with SP updates. He hinted that another Windows OS may be in the back corners and will appear in a year or two to correct this situation.

So I'm staying with my Win7 install and loving it. I find that its certainly an upgrade from XP and I'm not missing the old OS in any way. On the shelves at stores are only computers with Win8. You can't find Win7 except through online sources. I'm buying a couple spare disks to use on future machines to hedge against M$ taking Win7 totally off the market and forcing us to only use Win8.

Rick