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Good. Windows 8(.1) is a better OS (faster, nice UI improvements). Time to move on. It's a bit amazing that 4 Microsoft OSes have nice big chunks of the overal

• anonymoushn 13y ago
  Unfortunately, a bug introduced in Windows 8 causes about 60% of the Windows apps I want to use (by time spent using them) to crash. The current workaround is to not use Windows 8 or to disable one's sound device.
  • romanovcode 13y ago
    Unfortunately, if you don't use Windows 8 you won't be able to run those apps in the first place. If you're talking about Metro apps, of course.
    • anonymoushn 13y ago
      Fortunately nobody will be crazy enough to ship metro-only games.
  • trimbo 13y ago
    What's the bug? Is the bug up on connect.microsoft.com?
    • anonymoushn 13y ago
      Playing multiple sounds at once on one of their older audio APIs reliably crashes apps. It's on the Game Maker bug tracker at http://bugs.yoyogames.com/view.php?id=7977 http://bugs.yoyogames.com/view.php?id=7977. I tried looking around on connect.microsoft.com, but I wasn't able to classify this bug into any of the listed products or find a place to search for bugs for anything at all.
  • FireBeyond 13y ago
    What an odd metric. By that description, one singular app that you spend most of your time in it would meet that criteria, but to read it, it sounds like there's a whole slew of issues.
    • anonymoushn 13y ago
      It seems like a reasonable metric. If someone only uses Photoshop and Photoshop doesn't work on a given OS, the OS is probably useless to that person. It might still be fine for other people who don't care quite so much about Photoshop. In my case it's a large number of apps that all use the same broken API because they are made from the same framework.