The Flat Earth Society
Other Discussion Boards => Technology & Information => Topic started by: markjo on October 01, 2014, 02:25:24 AM
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Because even Windows 9 couldn't be what Windows 8 should have been.
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/09/30/announcing-windows-10/
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Did they just skip 9 or what?
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Microsoft can't count.
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God dammit Microsoft, why can't they just be normal and increase the number by one? Xbox One, Windows 8.1, Windows 10.
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I hope you get the choise to disable that start-menu/metro hybrid and just have the regular old start-menu.
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When are they bringing Windows XP back? Just call it XP2. It would sell millions.
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When are they bringing Windows XP back? Just call it XP2. It would sell millions.
Why? Contrary to the opinion of people who don't actually use computers, Windows 7 and 8.1 are huge improvements over XP. Even Vista was better, despite everyone jumping on the "hurr durr vista is bad and I don't even know why!" bandwagon.
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When are they bringing Windows XP back? Just call it XP2. It would sell millions.
Why? Contrary to the opinion of people who don't actually use computers, Windows 7 and 8.1 are huge improvements over XP. Even Vista was better, despite everyone jumping on the "hurr durr vista is bad and I don't even know why!" bandwagon.
I think you're over-correcting in response to the "hurr durr Vista is bad" bandwagon. While that group does exist, it only exists because a lot of people who know what they're talking about realize that Vista actually is really bad. If you want some serious hardcore evidence just see that this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_Vista) Wikipedia article explaining the criticisms of Vista is more than twice as long as the one regarding criticism of XP. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_XP)
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Vista had a lot of features that made it better than XP, the problem was the features were implemented in a less than optimal manner (notoriously the RAM application storage, which sometimes decides to eat up just about all of your RAM for giggles). Vista wasn't good at being Vista, but it was still a step forward from XP. The intial bandwagon of Vista being bad was due to companies shipping "Vista ready" computers, despite knowing full well that 2GB of RAM is not enough for Vista.
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Why do they call it Windows 10? Because seven eight nine HEUHEUAHEUHEHUAHEAHE
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When are they bringing Windows XP back? Just call it XP2. It would sell millions.
Why?
Nostalgia.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/2613504/microsoft-windows/microsoft-windows-microsoft-skips-too-good-windows-9-jumps-to-windows-10.html
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Still doesn't beat the jump from 3.11 to 95.
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Microsoft always make a 'good' OS followed by a bad one. XP was 'good', Vista was bad, Windows 7 good, Windows 8 bad, ... they clearly think the next one is going to be bad so they have numbered it appropriately.
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W8 is better than W7.
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lol 10/10
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Still doesn't beat the jump from 3.11 to 95.
Then there was the jump from 4.0 to 2000.
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W8 is better than W7.
lol 10/10
He isn't joking, unless he is literally referring to Windows 8 and not 8.1. Anyone who doesn't think Windows 8.1 is better than Windows 7 doesn't have a clue what they're talking about.
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lol 10/10
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At first I didn't like it, but it slowly won me over. The start screen is still obnoxious and useless on a desktop, but overall the OS runs better, boots faster (like near SSD speeds on my laptops HDD) and is easier to use.
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Still doesn't beat the jump from 3.11 to 95.
Now that they've adopted Chrome's rapid release schedule, we'll get to see what happens after they've hit 94 pretty soon.
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Windows ME was the best operating system ever.
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Apparently this is why they can't call it Windows 9:
https://searchcode.com/?q=if(version%2Cstartswith(%22windows+9%22) (https://searchcode.com/?q=if(version%2Cstartswith(%22windows+9%22))
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Yes.
critics also theorized—based on a post by a Reddit user claiming to work for Microsoft—that the decision to skip 9 was to prevent issues with older applications that may had been coded to detect Windows 95 and 98 by checking for the string "Windows 9". This theory was supported by the discovery of code on public repositories exhibiting this behavior.
Just in case someone didn't get it.
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Apparently this is why they can't call it Windows 9:
https://searchcode.com/?q=if(version%2Cstartswith(%22windows+9%22) (https://searchcode.com/?q=if(version%2Cstartswith(%22windows+9%22))
God damn lazy coders. Can't take the time to throw in one more or statement.
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Windows ME was the best operating system ever.
It was my personal favorite.
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It could run NHL 2000 while Windows 98 could not. Amazing.
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The refresh cycle for my computer is almost to the motherboard/CPU/OS so I'll be interested in how Windows 10 works.