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Microsoft Announces Windows 10
Today at a press conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the new version of their flagship operating system, called Windows 10. (Yes, t-e-n. I don't know.) With the new version of the operating system, they'll be unifying the application platform for all devices: desktops, laptops, consoles, tablets, and phones. As early leaks showed, the Start Menu is back — it's a hybrid of old and new, combining a list of applications with a small group of resizable tiles that can include widgets. Metro-style apps can now each operate inside their own window (video). There's a new, multiple-desktop feature, which power users have been demanding for years, and also a feature that lets users easily grab objects from one desktop and transfer it to another. The command line is even getting some love. The Technical Preview builds for desktops and laptops will be available tomorrow through the Windows Insider Program. They're requesting feedback from customers. Windows 10 will launch in late 2015.
based on previous rollouts, we are doomed. xp - good, vista - garbage. 7 good- 8 garbage. if we are skipping 9 (which historically would be the good release) and go to 10 will be a disaster! Someone needs to tell MS that users skip a generation of windows, not them!
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
They should have called it Windows X.
Truth stranger than fiction...
Yeah, the feature list sounds like a 90s linux desktop. Is Windows finally ready for the power-user desktop?! This could be the year.
Look at it from the bright side, at least it wasn't called Windows One.
From InfoWorld, April 1, 2013:
If you've been looking forward to Windows 9, the OS that will fix what Windows 8 got wrong, you're in for a surprise: There will be no Windows 9. Instead, Microsoft announced it will proceed directly to Windows 10.
"The Windows 9 internal beta was a phenomenal success," said Microsoft PR rep Cheryl Tunt. "I mean, it blew Windows 8 out of the water, and as we all know, Windows 8 is nigh flawless. After discussion at the C level, Microsoft has decided it will not mess with success and will leave Windows 9 exactly as it is. As such, work is now getting under way on Windows 10, which should see a public release."
http://www.infoworld.com/artic...
Perhaps he means you can over 500 miles to a tank on a Prius and only 265 in a Tesla model S
Don't let them bring you down, I'm sure this is finally the update where windows is ready for the desktop. What do you have without your dreams?
I used to think that Microsoft's problems were due to leadership issues and completely ignoring their userbase's wants and needs...
But no! Really, the problem is that they've been coding everything in base 9!
This reminds me of something my first boss told me: "Microsoft can't tell time. Have you ever seen how it counts down 3 minutes... 2 minutes... 7 minutes... 2 minutes... 1 minute...? They can't tell time!"
Translation:
It's such a screwed up mess that we don't know how to deal with it, so instead we're going to pull some marketing razzle dazzle and hope like hell people forget the mess we made.
But the real question is this:
If every other release sucks, and windows 8 sucked, and windows 9 is so good that it can't even be released, does that mean that Windows 10 will suck?
How long before I can reinstall Windows 95 and be up to date?
Then, we'd know it was on par and lock step with Apple's OS going forward.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
This one goes to 11, it's one louder
Full list of planned features here.
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Windows: Next Generation
Can be shortened to WiNG
Maybe even a flying wing logo. (man oh man why didn't I become a genius advertising guru instead of a loser IT geek)
And the version after this could be called Windows into Darkness
And if they create a Developer Edition, They can call it Windows Developer Edition X..... WinDEX!
Calling it "Windows 8.2" would support the idea that Windows 9 was just an update.
Skipping straight to Windows 10 makes it look like they're either just messing with us, or trying to compete with WordPerfect again.
Warm nacho cheese.
Fuck everything, we're doing Windows 10.
Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of operating systems in this country. Windows XP was the operating system to run. Then Apple came out with OS X. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called Windows Vista. That's Aero UI and a sidebar. For widgets. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened - the bastards went to mobile. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling a desktop operating system with a sidebar. Aero or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to Windows 10.
Sure, we could go to Windows 9 next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, 8 worked out pretty well, and 9 is the next number after 8. So let's play it safe. Let's make a better UI and call it the Start Screen. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
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Gentlemen I'm from the future, a microsoft you do not yet know, and I bring dire warnings. here in this foul year of 2054 where we've reached windows 456,776 elite premium solar helium wombat version, the releases never end.. The upcoming version is just a box with a nine volt battery and a stack of old playing cards but we cannot stop. newer products are being released every millisecond without so much as a tertiary consideration for what, if anything, users still want from us. The leaks are also getting worse, with version 914,135 electric pickle teleportation premium recently being leaked from the year 2089 by a screaming, sweating man in a time-suit known only as ball-mar. The latest version of Microsoft Windows RT CBBQ pro pony mobile implant indigestion premium was also mistakenly leaked to a confused Thomas Jefferson during a continental congress meeting of the Land Ordinance of 1784. this was approved by the Microsoft board of directors in the year 2153, despite the computer not even existing, with a standing ovation.
help us. Even now windows 11-14 are being released. First to feral cats off a european costal city, next to an air conditioner in tempe arizona, and finally to a street light in a dennys parking lot. Windows 28 will simultaneously require, and forbid, the use of a touchscreen to gain functionality to a windows "start" button (later this will be renamed the Gorloc device, in honor of Gorlok the malevolent for a future release predicted by the corporate runemaster during the coming interplanetary ork battle.) I beg you, stop the madness.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Windows has caught up with fvwm. 1.
Sounds familiar.
Yes, they should use the Roman numeral and call this Windows X. Apple did it, and it was cool. Then they could call their next version Windows 10 Plus, or for short, Windows XP. Businesses will jump right on that one.
It's the alphanumeric ones that suck.
I'm holding out for Windows !
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
Or they could adopt the new place names like Yosemite. Being a Washington state company they should do Windows Mount St. Helens.
It's actually just a re-do of Windows 8, but they wrote it in octal.
Well, how many times have you seen "let's make our own date/time/number/argument/xml parser"?
Weeks of programming can save you from the arduous task of 5 minutes of searching Google.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Can they be ajar?
If they're written in Java, maybe.
Please stand clear of the doors, por favor mantenganse alejado de las puertas
When the going gets tough at Microsoft, they fall back on their oldest practices.
C:\WINDOWS>copy Apple