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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
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)
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.
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.
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.