Quote - I see a lot of people mentioning Windows 8.1.

Ironically, Windows 8.1 is bieng dropped in preference to another update to Windows 8

If you have 8.1 and do not do the recent major patch to it, all support to it will be dropped.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/04/25/why-microsoft-is-already-dropping-support-for-wind.aspx

 

That is interesting, although I think the article might be a little wide of the mark of the reasons for not installing updates.  From what I can see more people are concerned about the damage it might do rather than it 'interupting their workflow'. 

Still I can't see whatever tactics they use will force me into the Windows 8 camp.  I use the computer mainly as a hobby and a hobby is meant to be fun, for me Windows 8 is no fun at all. 

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.