antonyberry
New Member
Hi, just moved from a variety of devices (tablet, laptops etc) to a Surface Pro 3 - very nice indeed.
I have the ability to influence the purchasing of a number of devices for work, and was going to suggest that we move to the MS Surface range. However a couple of challenges:
our IS will not support windows 8.1! Windows 7 (and 8 weirldy) are supported, and we run a lot of analytical software that will only run on those. So primarily, I am on here to seek help in getting a step by step guide to dual booting my surface into 8.1 (good times for me) and 7 or 8 (good times for work).
I have a windows 8 image file, but whenever I propose to the device that it boots from the USB iso (advanced startup options, usb and so on) it simply boots back into windows 8 - its all very frustrating.
So if needs be, I am happy to reinstall Windows 8.1., if 8 or 7 is installed first, but the perfect state would be a windows 8.1 machine, with a dual boot option to 7 or 8 which can be added to works network. Thank you if you can direct me to this information
I have the ability to influence the purchasing of a number of devices for work, and was going to suggest that we move to the MS Surface range. However a couple of challenges:
our IS will not support windows 8.1! Windows 7 (and 8 weirldy) are supported, and we run a lot of analytical software that will only run on those. So primarily, I am on here to seek help in getting a step by step guide to dual booting my surface into 8.1 (good times for me) and 7 or 8 (good times for work).
I have a windows 8 image file, but whenever I propose to the device that it boots from the USB iso (advanced startup options, usb and so on) it simply boots back into windows 8 - its all very frustrating.
So if needs be, I am happy to reinstall Windows 8.1., if 8 or 7 is installed first, but the perfect state would be a windows 8.1 machine, with a dual boot option to 7 or 8 which can be added to works network. Thank you if you can direct me to this information
