windows8 vs windows7pro

[falkpl]

I am buying a new PC and it is looking like I might be forced into a change from windows 7pro to windows8 (harder to find the exact laptop options in a win7pro pc).

I need to support many applications  I have developed in a variety of LV versions 2010-2013 both 32 and 64 bit all toolkits but mostly FPGA, VISION and DB toolkits.  Any bad experiences with any of this?

[Jeff-P]

Hi Paul,

LabVIEW itself and almost all toolkits and modules work with Windows 8 (32 and 64 bit). The FPGA module does not support Windows 8, specifically the compile tools will not work without some trickery. 

Regards,

Jeff Peacock 

Product Support Engineer | LabVIEW R&D | National Instruments 

[falkpl]

good to know, I will try to stick to windows7 pc to be safe.