I don't have a touch screen and it seems to me (the experts here will soon correct me) that W8 was designed with touch screens in mind. Already had to update to Olympus software as the cheap (originally free) Express Scribe can't handle DS audio and MY major client sends me a lot of DS. Seems like I'll be 'cramming' again when they leave to pay for this nonsense so I think summer will be a write-off for us. Oh, and I have 2 lovely, lovely friends arriving on the 7th for 5 days all the way from Australia who I've not seen for 15-20 years so am cramming work now to make up the money I "lose" while they're here.
They are on London wages so £125 is a "pfffffft" to them. Hello? I'm currently working 7 days a week, I have a kid off school for 2 months from next Friday and we already live extremely frugally to make sure there's money in the pot for the tax next month, the insurance and a bit towards this year's firewood.
Their final sentence was, and I quote, " we are extremely busy at the moment and can provide you with high work levels". They have given me until 29 August to migrate to a new system at a minimum cost of £125 for Windows Ultimate. Well the answer is finally in - AxCrypt is not acceptable to the clients as it doesn't encrypt the entire system disk, only individual folders. I can't actually avoid this as apparently they're going to issue a "checker" programme in September to rifle through people's computers to see if all security measures are in place. Bearing in mind this laptop is already 2 years old and may decide to implode at any given time, ask dear old mam (she's 81) to toddle up to Argos to buy a new laptop which presumably would have 8.1 already installed (would have to check that) so she can bring it with her if she comes in September. Also is Windows 8.1 horrendous compared to 7 or are they fundamentally the same, for anyone who's made a change.ģ. Spend £60 or whatever on an external hard drive to transfer everything possible to avoid it being nuked by Windows 8.1 which is also probably about £120. Otherwise what course of action would any of you adopt? I've narrowed it down basically to three options - if you think of more they'd be very welcome:Ģ. I'm waiting for a response from them as to whether AxCrypt, which I installed when I saw the announcement about TrueCrypt, will meeting their criteria. I didn't check the price of 8.1 because as soon as I read it I saw that it actually nukes all existing files and settings. (b) Those wanting to remain on Windows 7, upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate which costs £120.
(a) Upgrade to Windows 8.1 to access Bitlocker or I've just received an email from my major cilent saying they've had to rethink their security protocol now that TrueCrypt is out the window and that everyone must (this is not optional) either:
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