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mwhitney · 08-17-2015, 07:40 AM

From what I've seen of Windows 10, it's Windows 8.1 + Edge/Cortana and some abrasive new terms in their licensing and privacy statements (at least as far as most of the articles I've read on it indicate). We still use Windows 7 for most of our machines, but will likely switch to Windows 10, eventually.

Personally, I use a MacBook Pro at home. I switched from Windows years ago when I started developing iOS apps at work and came to really enjoy the OS and development tools.

At work, I use the "desktop" version of whatever version of Linux is running on my web server. It just makes it less likely that I'll run into issues migrating my code. I also make sure that any software I use for development can run in all three environments (Windows/OS X/Linux), just in case.

I ran Windows at work for quite a while, but Windows Update downloaded a bad driver one day and killed the first 4 hours of my day, so I felt it was finally time to bite the bullet and loaded Linux on the second hard drive, then setup a VM to access the original Windows partitions on the first hard drive. Now, I just use the Windows VM when I have to do something in Active Directory, or when I need Acrobat, PhotoShop, or the occasional document that just doesn't come out right unless it's opened in Word or Excel. More often than not, I dust off the VM once a week to make sure it gets patched properly, especially with all of the security notices we get about Adobe's software. It also comes in handy when I need to see what something looks like in IE, though I usually keep a few additional VMs around for that, since I sometimes have to test a couple of versions of IE.

Ideally, I would use a Mac for my web development platform with Windows VMs for testing, because Safari makes up a decent percentage of the hits on my site (and Safari on Windows is about as out of date as IE on a Mac), but that particular purchasing decision was made without my input. Still, I like knowing that everything I use on my server (especially Apache and PHP) is the exact same version that is on my desktop.

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