[hpsdr] Windows 7

[Doug Bade]

While I cannot address point 1, but...

         There are certainly advantages to eventually moving to 
Windows 7.. but is there any reason to jump at it in the near term??? 
No really great ones... sooner or later, yes, as XP is going out of 
support at some point as has Win98 and Win2000 ..

I have found Windows 7 to be very stable as long as the sw was 
Vista/Win 7 certified to start. I have found issues with 2 pieces of 
software which are not as well supported and/or written and put the 
brakes on using them... Both Commercial and Both Proprietary and both 
internally supported by the vendor....

In general I have started migrating one of my primary desktops to 
Win7 and most common SW for day to day stuff works fine as it has 
most all been certified for Vista... which is the core of Win7.... 
Older software that was not Vista aware is more the issue....If the 
installers were written to not load on anything newer than XP, they 
tend to halt....

I have no real experience with operating Win7 and PowerSDR at this 
time but I was able to get the firmware loading stuff running earlier 
this year when beta's first popped up.. and it did run with some tweaking..

Doug
KD8B





At 10:08 AM 10/23/2009, you wrote:
>***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
>All:
>
>OK. With all the hype on "Windows 7" I have to ask...
>
>1.) Is PowerSDR compatible with "Windows 7" ?
>(They talk about some kind of XP Compatibility Mode.)
>
>2.) Does "Windows 7" offer any fundamental advantages over
>Windows XP?  (All the reviews compare it to Vista, which I don't
>care about. XP is stable, acceptably fast, and "the devil I know.")
>
>Thanks,
>--- Graham / KE9H
>
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