Windows 10

[FlamingSpork]

This year, my team (3003) used the Windows 10 Technical Preview for our main driving/programming laptop. We (happily) had few issues, other than some networking glitches.

Are any other teams using/planning on using Windows 10?
I know that many teams probably won't upgrade because Windows 7 is very stable and there is no reason to upgrade.

[MikLast]

Our programming mentor had issues with windows 8 on his surface, i bet he will go to 10 when it comes out. Our school seems to want to get chromeboxes for everything, but our building (the engineering/FFA part is split off from the rest of the school) still has really nice laptops, and those are probably going to keep windows 7, though we may ask to put a few to 10 just to keep them updated.

[pastelpony]

If it wipes all of our software, no. I don't feel like re installing LabVIEW again.

[JohnSmooth42]

Anything that isn't Vista or 8 is something I would use. My god setting up the DS before a match with 8 is annoying.

[Louis_]

Staying with Windows 7, I absolutely hate 8.

[MrRoboSteve]

We pave our machines each year so that we have a known baseline (meaning we do a full reinstall each year), and will use either 8.1 or 10 based on whether 10 is supported.

[jojoguy10]

We used Windows 8.1 this year with few problems. I like the "latest and greatest" (as the programming mentor). We'll probably switch to 10 when it comes out.

[Munchskull]

I don't know about the rest of my team but my personal cad computer (aka my gaming tower) will be upgraded. Hope solidworks sit works soild.*

* pun %997 intended.

[Ichlieberoboter]

We used 7 this year. I would have preferred 8, actually, but we used those ghastly little laptops you can get for 40 points that make you want to punch someone. We have a rather small budget.

[Shrub]

By ghastly little laptops, do you mean the Clamshells?

Our programmers all have their own laptops (minus the two clamshells we have now), and some are W8. I think our DS laptop is 7 though.

[FrankJ]

Since Microsoft isn't selling Windows 7 anymore... The copies of 7 in the pipeline will eventually dry up. We use 8.1 on our competition DS & 7 on the practice bot DS. Didn't see any differences other then the 8.1 user interface being slight annoying.

[Tungrus]

We will wait for at least one service pack release before we move to next version. With Microsoft, the leading edge has been the bleeding edge.

Windows 7 support will not go for few more years, by then MS will have some stable version.

[protoserge]

I would not plan on using Windows 7 past its supported timeframe. Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for the first year, so I'd highly recommend taking that route.

SolidWorks will work fine on Windows 10 - Dassault Systems would be hard pressed to make software that did not work on their customer's computers. Since SolidWorks sponsors FIRST, you will be given a license to the software that will work on it.

Originally Posted by JohnSmooth42

Anything that isn't Vista or 8 is something I would use. My god setting up the DS before a match with 8 is annoying.

I'm curious what issues you had that make you say this?

[BenGuy]

Originally Posted by FlamingSpork

This year, my team (3003) used the Windows 10 Technical Preview for our main driving/programming laptop. We (happily) had few issues, other than some networking glitches.

Are any other teams using/planning on using Windows 10?
I know that many teams probably won't upgrade because Windows 7 is very stable and there is no reason to upgrade.

[Developer for Windows 10 here]
Windows 7 is obviously the most stable windows version out there as of now, and works fine for us. As a developer, we have actually been able to eliminate more bugs than in the past versions of windows at this stage, so it should be stable. We're aiming to release in early August, so there will be another 5 months of updates we can release before kickoff so we might be able to reliably use Windows 10 in the next season. Hope that helps.

[asid61]

Personally I've found that Windows 8.1 takes up massive amounts of memory (I have 8gb) such that SolidWorks will throw a "low memory" error after a few hours of running, even if nothing else is open. It might just be my computer, but I'm probably going to try Windows 10 later to see if it helps.