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Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch
MojoKid writes: Windows 10 isn't even out the door yet, so what better time than now to talk about its successor? Believe it or not, there's a fair bit of information on it floating around already, including its codename: "Redstone." Following in the footsteps of 'Blue' and 'Threshold', Redstone is an obvious tie-in to Microsoft's purchase of Minecraft, which it snagged from Mojang last year. Redstone is an integral material in the game, used to create simple items like a map or compass as well as logic gates for building electronic devices, like a calculator or automatic doors. The really important news is that we could see Windows Redstone sometime in 2016.
You really will have blocks of code then
sort of
Win95/ME bad, Win98 good, Win2k good, WinXP good, WinVista bad, Win7 good, Win8 bad
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
I'm thinking that they are breaking this pattern now, and have a new one.
Everything after Win7 bad . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Except that you need to track their consumer Windows versions in order: Windows 3.1 - Good, Win95 - Bad (Then OK with SP2), Win98 - Good, WinME - Very Bad, WinXp - Good, Visa - Bad, Win7 - Good, Win8 - Bad Bad.
(Don't put WinME out of order and don't mix in Win2k if you aren't also going to include Windows NT)
The fact that the fear of change starting with XP and still to this day many businesses which are smaller still using it with plans to change scare them.
Annual new releases though will drive them harder to Windows 7 more than any other time in computer history. It means businesses which take years to upgrade due to dozens if not hundreds of apps and ancient IE intranet sites will need staff that just upgrades and changes for the sake of changes year round!
Cost accountants and CIOs will not like annual upgrades
http://saveie6.com/
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Well, it could be named after an obscure material in a computer game. An in-joke for those who know it.
Or it could be named after the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, or after the Redstone missile built there by von Braun and which was the base for Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom's flights into space.
Guess we'll never know.
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XP and later are the NT series too. Win2K was the first version of NT that saw any significant consumer use. It was originally intended to replace both NT4 and 98 (unifying the two streams like XP eventually did), but they later changed their mind and released 98SE and ME. Still, 2K was far more consumer-friendly than NT4 was, and lots of technically oriented users like myself followed the upgrade path of 98 -> 2K -> XP.
...I think you're the first person in history to call Windows 8.1 "good" and Windows 2000 "bad." What's your secret?
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Perhaps by 2016 Slashdot will have replaced its stained glass window with a legit Windows icon---
a courtesy it extends to every other operating system and to projects like GNU Hurd, which hasn't delivered a 1.0 release in twenty-five years.
I'm pretty sure Windows 7 was not really just "rebranded Vista." Having used both Vista and Windows 7, it certainly seems like they fixed a whole lot of issues in Vista. Sure, it looks sorta similar more or less continued the Vista-esque GUI/frontend look and feel... but if we're just basing it on the frontend look and feel, then we may as well be comparing Windows to Gnome and KDE... :P
You clearly didn't spend much time around Windows 95. It was obnoxiously unstable. I worked for a small ISP from the mid-90s until around 2006, and I remember the hell that was the Windows 95 TCP/IP stack, where I got to be a master at leading even neophytes through the Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel to uninstall and reinstall TCP/IP just so they could dial up and get a network connection. I remember frequent crashes, memory leaks and the general instability of 95.
They didn't really clean things up until Windows 98, and within a couple of years of Windows 98 coming out, the number of tech calls I got over Windows issues dropped pretty substantially.
Windows 95 was a massive kludge to get a 32 bit OS into the consumer market before any competition (there was a time when OS/2 was seen as a serious threat). It was a rush job.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Windows ME good? What dimension are you from?
Windows Live. The only Windows with DirectX 12.1.
Only $9.99 per month per device. Includes 60 minutes of Skype credit, a bunch of storage you'll never fill up on a good service you won't use because it isn't called Dropbox, and you have to log into your Microsoft account to do anything. No, your Microsoft account. Your email address you don't use. No, not that one. Look, do you have an Xbox? It used to be called Hotmail but we don't call it that anymore. It's the one you use to view on Outlook. No, not at work, on outlook.com. Yes, even though your address ends in hotmail.com.
Slashdotter 1: Every other version of Windows sucks.
Slashdotter 2: No, because your not counting Windows blahblahblah
Slashdotter 3: Hey, we're not talking about non professional second service packs, were talking about versiions that have thisorthat.
Y'all are assembling a Beowulf cluster of asininity, and Netcraft confirms it.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
but 2012 has that shit 8.x GUI, so it's BAD
I am starting to think Microsoft bought Mojang to stabilize it and keep it OS neutral. A lot of the other entities that could have bought it would already have started using Minecraft to do nasty things to other platforms.
It would have really sucked for Google to buy Mojang. Save files would have already been mandatorily been sucked to the cloud. Ads on the launcher. And knowing Google an eol would already be announced.
Everything after Win7 bad . . .
Win10 looks to be a good and solid upgrade to Win7.
Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?
Win10 looks
Just don't remind me how it looks. Other than that, it's doing fine.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
One of the big improvements was a focus on optimization. There were a number of global locks in Windows Vista that were re-engineered in Windows 7 to be much more efficient on multi-core/multi-CPU machines.
BTW, don't pay any attention to the internal version numbers. These were mismatched simply for compatibility reasons, not because it was a "minor" tech upgrade or anything like that.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Microsoft doesn't care. It wants more people to buy its Windows phones and tablets, and use more of its own ecosystem stuff: Bing, Outlook, Skype, Cortana.
The desktop PC monopoly is only used as a leverage for other things, because Microsoft is jealous of Apple (hardware) and Google (software and services).
MIcrosoft changed its CEO, but it is business as usual.
they know there's a fundamental difference.
it's just that couple of the guys up high on the system were/are willing to sacrifice desktop usability in order to push people into getting their software from microsofts software market rather than directly from software publishers.
because they want that 30%.
metro was conceived purely because of that. all the other stuff piled up, all the hurry in making it was because of that(not api parity with old stuff). ALL of it was only for that end goal, even the superficial windows phone etc integration.
the reason why they're giving the new windows free for tablets is because of that 30%. the reason why they started giving developer tools 100% free is for that 30%. the reason why you were booted into something that piece of shit launcher that would launch the apps from the store was because of that 30%.
because really, if you're a fatass idiot running the show and look at apple getting 30% of millions of app sales.. then you look at your own platform and realize that you could, potentially, be having 30% of every photoshop cs-whatever's 1000$+ price tag... then you start to steer your company into doing stupid shit like that - and why do you think about the same time that was coming into fold the companies doing sw like photoshop started looking into subscription models? by accident? why did valve push steambox/steamos? the companies stared doing that stuff as insurance. MS never had even a chance of getting that 30%.
(the phone integration with wp7.5 was realy funny too, had to install fucking zune on windows 8, to get same level of integration you had with android phones out of the box)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.