[Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

[Richard E. Crislip]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 09:37:10 +1100
Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> On 25/11/2015 9:01 AM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> 
> > One advantage for developers is that you can run the Insider Version
> > of W 10 dual booting with W 7, something you cannot do if you take
> > the "FREE" upgrade route.
> >
> > The requirements are stiff, you must be capable of zeroing your hard
> > disk and starting with a clean install if something goes really bad,
> > willing and able to recover from serious problems and workaround
> > things that do not work.
> 
> And that sounds like something I wouldn't touch with a 10-ft barge
> pole either. FTR I went down the dual-boot path many years ago and
> gave it up as unwieldy.
> 
> A colleague of mine has multiple clients and projects running in 
> parallel and does all his work - which is _ALL_ windows-based -
> within VM's on his Apple laptop. One per project. He swears by it but
> I've also seen some of the hoops he has to jump through and the
> juggling he needs to do when disk space becomes a factor.
> 
> We also tried VM's quite a few years ago (WinXP days) and whilst I 
> acknowledge things have improved since then, it was more trouble that
> it was worth at the time.
> 
> Right now I have a Win 8.1 DVD sitting on my desk and I'll be
> dragging a whole machine out of storage to install that on.
> 
> Regards,
> 

Maybe you can run your XP apps from a virtual machine?