SJMaye wrote: In the mean

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In the mean time I will also wait to read more about Win8 MC before upgrading.  I would like to see if they are going to invest anytime in MC or just repackage what I already have.  They can keep the Metro interface.  I like MC just the way it is.  Only thing I have seen I like as much is XBMC.  I would switch in a minute if it could use my ceton card to record.

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While METRO seems to be a love it or hate it type experience, and WMC seems to be pretty much just the same at 7’s, I’m surprised there isn’t more talk about the under the hood aspects of Win 8.  I’d posted link about music recording software performane in Win8 under the $40 upgrade deal thread ( http://blog.cakewalk.com/windows-8-a-benchmark-for-music-production-applications/ if you hadn’t seen it) and it appears that there are some decent changes to the kernel from their benchmarks.  I’m curious to see if the kernel changes make any difference with any of the software I run on my HTPC.  I’ll be taking a sit back and wait approach as my Win7 system is “stable” (no reason to tempt fate), but I do wonder if the OS overhead reduction of Win8 will be of benifit (Theorectically, a smaller OS footprint could mean more HTPC software overhead, but I have no clue if that’ll make a real world difference.)

edit:  I’d love to see a resource benchmark comparision of a same machine running Win7 vs Win8 doing stuff like recording 4 hd streams (or more), background re-encoding, Blu-ray playback, etc to see the differences.