{"id":211,"date":"2012-08-15T18:10:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T23:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaeddy.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2012-08-15T18:10:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T23:10:49","slug":"upgrading-to-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, seeing as Microsoft released the RTM version of Windows 8 to Technet subscribers today I&#8217;ve gone and downloaded my copy and I am running a direct upgrade of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 to Windows 8 x64. Not as courageous (or foolish, depending upon your point of view) as you might think because I happen to have two very capable workstations, one of which has limited applications installed, so that is the workstation that drew the task.<\/p>\n<p>The machine in question is an AMD 9550 Quad Core, 2.6 GHz CPU on a Biostar TA780GE motherboard with 8GB of PC6400 and a Radeon HD4670 512MB Video Card. HDD is a simple 340GB WD 7200 RPM, so this is not a screaming machine, but it&#8217;s well within the specifications. All that remains is to see how it all unfolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, seeing as Microsoft released the RTM version of Windows 8 to Technet subscribers today I&#8217;ve gone and downloaded my copy and I am running a direct upgrade of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 to Windows 8 x64. Not as courageous (or foolish, depending upon your point of view) as you might think because I happen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}