On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Mark Hanchey wro= te: > I can work around most of these, but I was wondering what others are > doing. Are you staying with an older OS for compatibility or are you > toughing it out slowly changing to a newer OS ? I am at the point of > considering going back to xp for my development pc but I hate the idea > of going to an OS I know will not be supported in the future. Curious > what others are doing here . Mark, I use Windows 7 on all of my machines now. I use MPLAB extensively. I don't rely on much legacy software. I use the Embed Inc environment for PIC development and it works fine. I also use cygwin and create Makefiles to build my large PIC projects, which allows me to utilize multiple cores (4 in laptop, 2 on desktop) My USB projects for work use Embed Inc's USB driver which works fine on all 32 bit Windows environments but not 64 bit - for that I use libusb. And with how cheap computer hardware is, I don't find a good reason to skimp on hardware. I put solid state drives in both of my machines and the productivity increase is well worth the cost. --=20 Martin K. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .