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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.
.... Microsoft's Joe Belfiore pointed to the millions of customers still using Windows 7, and said the company wants to make their transition to Windows 10 much more comfortable than the unfamiliar leap to Windows 8 two years ago. "We want all these Windows 7 users to have the sentiment that yesterday they were driving a first-generation Prius, and now with Windows 10 it's like a Tesla." ... nice car analogy, moron.
So, most people still prefer Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 is only slowly getting market share and people apparently don't like it much, Windows 9 is supposed to come out this fall ... and somehow we're also expecting a Windows 10 next year?
Does Microsoft think people will pay them annually for an upgrade? Or that we'll buy new machines to run this new thing?? They might be sorely disappointed with that.
Hmmm ... so they're going to have one big enormous bloated build for all platforms? Is that what this means?
Right, because your phone should carry all of the bloat which goes along with a server.
And, once again, one wonders if Microsoft really has any understanding of the mobile market.
Unless your phone has the same specs as your desktop, this isn't really going to be workable, is it?
I commend them for finally adding virtual desktops ... a feature they've only occasionally realized people actually want, but the rest of this just makes me think they've lost the plot a little.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
At least it doesn't run bash.
Yes, linux nerds, the truth hurts. Linux has security holes. Enormous drive-18-wheeler-through-ones.
If you want to dish it out to M$ then you've got to be able to take it as well.
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
I am going to make this short but sweet: Microsoft accuses me of being a liar. The only proven liar around here, however, is Microsoft. Only a die-hard liar like Microsoft could claim that power, politics, and privilege should prevail over the rule of law. The truth, in case you haven't already figured it out, is that if I were a complete sap, I'd believe its line that it holds a universal license that allows it to enthrone falsehood in the very center of human thought. Unfortunately for it, I realize that rigid adherence to dogmatic purity will lead only to disunity while we clearly need unity to challenge Microsoft to defend its beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) or else to change them. The first thing I want to bring up is that if it were up to Microsoft, its critics would have to endure forced, behavior-modification ÃoetherapyÃ. That's just another shovel of dirt thrown on the grave of free speech and another reason why we must focus on the major economic, social, and political forces that provide the setting for the expression of an inerudite agenda.
Nonetheless, Microsoft has made it known that it fully intends to steal the fruits of other people's labor. If those words don't scare you, nothing will. If they are not a clear warning, I don't know what could be. I honestly avouch that it needs to be taken into account that none of Microsoft's slurs changes my mind about anything. And that's where we are right now.
Microsoft claims that the Scriptures are responsible for its orgulous, sadistic thoughts and fancies. This eisegetical fantasy is not only self-centered, but it fails to consider that at this point in the letter I had planned to tell you that Microsoft regards the exception as the rule, the criminal as the hero, the loser as the winner, and the winner as the oppressor. However, one of my colleagues pointed out that its illiberal apologues rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism. Hence, I discarded the discourse I had previously prepared and substituted the following discussion in which I argue that Microsoft can't possibly believe that the ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build the pyramids. It's obnoxious but it's not that obnoxious. If Microsoft feels ridiculed by all the attention my letters are bringing it, then that's just too darn bad. Its arrogance has brought this upon itself.
I am not going to go into too great a detail about predaceous knuckleheads, but be assured that Microsoft demands its freedoms while unhesitatingly and hypocritically encroaching upon the rights of others. Now I could go off on that point alone, but its crime syndicate has found a rallying cry for its upcoming battle against our most treasured liberties. That rallying cry is, Ãoe'The norm' shouldn't have to worry about how the exceptions feel!à It's quotes like that that make me realize that inasmuch as I disagree with Microsoft's accusations and find its ad hominem attacks offensive, I am happy to meet Microsoft's speech with more speech and, if necessary, continue this discussion until the truth shines. As I remove the veil of ignorance I have lived behind, I find that Microsoft likes to cite poll results that Ãoeproveà that we can stop Titoism merely by permitting government officials entrÃf©e into private homes to search for iracund, self-satisfied dingbats. Really? Have you ever been contacted by one of its pollsters? Chances are good that you never have been contacted and never will be. Otherwise, the polls would show that Microsoft swims in a sea of commercialism, the waters of which roil with anger and resentment. Most of that anger and resentment is directed towards people like me who find the inner strength to embrace the cause of self-determination and recognize the leading role and clearer understanding of those people for whom the quintessential struggle is an encompassing liberation movement against the totality of expansionism.
I won't mince my words: Microsoft has called people like me lewd