I thought I’d report that after upgrading my Windows XP partition to Windows 8 and installing Audacity 2.02, I seem to have the same problem as I did in Linux. See this post:
Bug 594 is already marked as platform independent (not just one operating system) and it is marked “P2” (the second highest priority) so it has to be fixed before the next Audacity release.
That was only true when we had the previous Beta / “stable” distinction. P2 is now up to the Release Manager to decide whether to fix it or not at release time.
All releases are now “pseudo-stable” where a new release cannot be significantly worse than 2.0.0.
So any bug that would have been P2 when we had the Beta / “stable” distinction would most likely be a P1 now. And since several P2’s were demoted to get 2.0.0 out, they possibly ought to be (at least) P2 now.