No problems so far. The initial testing shows us running well and very fast under WIndows 8.

Be very careful about whether to install Windows 8!  I have stated on a number of forums that if you use the free Classic Start Menu program you can make it look and work exactly like Win 7 from the user's perspective.

But what I am finding is it's a security nightmare!

Microsoft has gone absolutely crazy with security!  Things that worked fine in 7 now constantly refuse to work because even as an Administrator you don't have high-enough permissions.  For instance, you have to edit a script in \Program Files\whatever -- when you go to save it, it refuses.  So then you have to save it elsewhere, then Run Explorer as administrator, then cut and paste.  That's a huge pain when you're doing development! A lot of things won't run if they're not in a "trusted" location.

In many cases, it won't let you set high-enough permissions. In many cases the only way to get a well-established program to work is to hack the registry. In many cases, even very recent releases (Nov 2012) won't work.

A lot of these problems are not obvious when you first start working with it.

My brother has been wishing for an Apple version for some time.

Nothing specific to Sesame, but this might at some point provide a solution to some problem:


By default, the Windows 8 operating system's core never shuts down all the way! It's part of a new feature — fast startup.

When you issue a standard power-down command to Win8, it carries out a hybrid shutdown. Win8 first closes and terminates all user sessions in the expected way. Next, it copies what's still running in RAM (primarily, the live core of the operating system — the system kernel) onto the hard drive. It then turns off the system hardware.

When Win8 starts up after a hybrid shutdown, it performs a hybrid boot. As soon as the hardware's ready, the core of the OS reloads from the hard drive; Win8 then picks up right from where it left off. Thus, the OS itself is up and ready to go in a flash. You still have to reload your apps and data the normal way, from scratch.

For more info on Win8's Fast Startup hybrid shutdown/hybrid boot, see the MSDN blog post, "Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8" at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-wind...