Re: Windows 8

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Well yeah, but virtualization also seems to have been a
priority:


http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper-v-to-windows-8.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper-v-to-windows-8.aspx



At 10/25/2012 08:11 PM, you wrote:

This latest Win is said to have
been designed primarily for tablets.  What I've been

seeing is a blizzard of rather negative reports on it.




  Jordan


--- On Thu, 10/25/12, Lynn Brenner
 wrote:





From: Lynn Brenner 


Subject: Re: Windows 8


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx


Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 11:15 AM



Based on the reviews even figuring out how to access Windows
programs will require some effort.



On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:57 PM,

Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx wrote:



Have you come across information that would lead you to believe that
a


further iteration of Windows would, in any way, make working with
DOS


easier? If you have, I would suggest that somebody is pulling your
leg.



And if not, then I guess we ALL know the answer.



(and from what I've seen so far, just figuring out how to even run
DOS


will be quite an effort)



-BH



-----Original Message----- From: Nicholas Clifford



I suppose I can already guess the answer to this, but is Windows 8
going


to make DOS programs -- XyIV specifically -- easier to use?