Labview Windows 8 compatability

[buckidge2]

Windows 8 is coming out in a week. I'm looking to buy a new PC to run labview on and I can't find whether or not LV2011/LV2012 will run on Windows 8 or not. 

Has NI said anything about this yet?

[JÞB]

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@buckidge2 wrote:

Windows 8 is coming out in a week. I'm looking to buy a new PC to run labview on and I can't find whether or not LV2011/LV2012 will run on Windows 8 or not. 

Has NI said anything about this yet?

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Yes.  (LMRTFMFY)

[buckidge2]

Okay.

Hate to do this, but REALLY, LMRTFMFY?!? Your link says nothing about windows 8. I can't actually find anything else about windows 8 either.

Now, LMGTFY - Nothing!!!

Really, I'm looking for a straight answer from NI on Windows 8 Compatability. Not looking to start a forum riot.

[crossrulz]

I think Jeff is saying that it isn't officially supported.  From my experience, I don't see why LabVIEW would have any problems.  Heck, I have 8.2 running on my Windows 7 64-bit with no problems.

My guess is that 2012 SP1 will have the official support.  But that's purely my guess.

[altenbach]

My guess is that on the official public release date of Windows 8, this page will be updated accordingly.

(Most companies don't make statements about unreleased versions.)

[Ray.R]

As a rule of thumb, I always wait until an OS is stable before migrating to it.  Been bitten too many times.

[Todd_Lesher]

Questionably-related sparse, empirical and anecdotal evidence: I've made a few LV2010 apps (RTE installer included) on a Win7 box, and people have been installing and running them on Win8 machines.

[wbadry]

I'm an MSDN subscriber and has a Windows 8 RTM for month now. I also lead courses in LabVIEW in my campus. I can assure that up to this moment, LabVIEW runs flawlessly on Windows 8

[buckidge2]

Thanks for all the feedback, folks. Looks like it's a good bet that LV will run in Win8.

[JasoNI · Accepted solution]

This is a good resource for all of your Windows 8 related questions: http://www.ni.com/windows8/

I hope that this helps!