I must be the RARE exception about Windows 8, although I am 8.1
now.
Totally LOVE 8.1 my Floriani software AND my PED Basic work fine
on my computer. Never have had Embrid or any other box or software
before so I can't give my thoughts on that.
But so far everything I have used in the past on my Windows 7 computer,
laptop and netbook have worked fine for me.
I will admit it DID take me a little time to locate the correct driver to make
my PED Basic box work but since getting the driver no problems.
As I am getting new designs (when I can remember to do it), I am opening
the file in my FES, save them in c2s than save to PES v.9.
I run 3 different daily backups of all my designs.
1St to my secondary HD
2nd to an off site cold storage
3rd to flash drives (I have 12 different flash drives of various storage size)
Yes I KNOW this is over kill, but for ME it is well worth the extra time
that it takes just be sure that I don't loose any of my designs. Heard
to many stories of people not having good backups of their designs and
ends up with none.