#1 2014-10-01 11:37:04
So Windows 10 will be the next version. Which, of course begs the question, what the hell happened to Windows 9?
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#2 2014-10-01 14:26:51
Baywolfe wrote:
what the hell happened to Windows 9?
It's in the "Software Protection Program" with Exchange 1, 2 and 3
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#3 2014-10-01 19:20:23
Ay, not again. We were spared Windoze 8 at my place of work, but I'm still hating on W7 after more than a year.
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#4 2014-10-01 22:20:35
George Orr wrote:
Ay, not again. We were spared Windoze 8 at my place of work, but I'm still hating on W7 after more than a year.
Haters gonna hate. W7 was better than XP, W8 was a bit misguided so they gave us W9 (labeled W8.1) for free and it did fix a lot. Whatever, it's Windows and frankly I think they are actually being very decent about the entire thing considering you really don't have a choice. Really, what else are you going to do? Use a Mac or one of those Linux Jellybean/KitKat things?
Can you imagine the costs associated with say a migration to Apple? Seriously, the training costs and the lost productivity to teach 10,000 users to function with only one mouse button is mind boggling...
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#5 2014-10-01 22:23:36
Emmeran wrote:
George Orr wrote:
Ay, not again. We were spared Windoze 8 at my place of work, but I'm still hating on W7 after more than a year.
Haters gonna hate. W7 was better than XP, W8 was a bit misguided so they gave us W9 (labeled W8.1) for free and it did fix a lot. Whatever, it's Windows and frankly I think they are actually being very decent about the entire thing considering you really don't have a choice. Really, what else are you going to do? Use a Mac or one of those Linux Jellybean/KitKat things?
Can you imagine the costs associated with say a migration to Apple? Seriously, the training costs and the lost productivity to teach 10,000 users to function with only one mouse button is mind boggling...
You're seriously behind the times, Em. Apple mice have two buttons now.
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#6 2014-10-02 00:20:31
Tall Paul wrote:
Emmeran wrote:
...teach 10,000 users to function with only one mouse button is mind boggling...
You're seriously behind the times, Em. Apple mice have two buttons now.
Really TP? I lay out a nice fat pitch straight down the middle and the best you can come up with is that I'm behind the times? You shoulda knocked that one out of the park buddy. Same with the Linux=Android comment earlier in my reply.
Man the eye of the tiger is long gone from around here...
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#7 2014-10-02 10:14:53
I used to joyfully and vigorously engage (with my limited technical knowledge) in Mac vs. PC battles on the web. However, nowadays the two platforms are just too much alike, and interact too efficiently. The war's over.
I work on a PC all day at the office (seriously, when our internet goes down there is not one single job task I can complete or even attempt--my job is totally net-dependent) and I work/play on a Mac when I get home. There's just no significant difference, at least not to an end user.
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#8 2014-10-02 11:09:56
One of my few laments in life is that I didn't buy my X a Mac years ago, she would have been able to use it while the PC just baffled her. (Well to be honest I lament everything to do with the X but that's a given). Both systems have been dumbed down into the realm of the modern automobile - basically it's all stab and steer these days.
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#9 2014-10-02 12:20:29
Tall Paul wrote:
You're seriously behind the times, Em. Apple mice have two buttons now.
Yeah, but now I can't live without the wheel.
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#10 2014-10-02 12:28:34
George Orr wrote:
when our internet goes down there is not one single job task I can complete or even attempt--my job is totally net-dependent
Welcome back to the Mainframe, so goes my career. Everyone scoffed when I told them IT was dead and look - now it's dead.
So meet the new boss, same as the old boss; get back on that assembly line motherfuckers...
Even the lauded new "Makers" realm is at the mercy of the Mainframe Cloud.
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#11 2014-10-02 15:39:41
Baywolfe wrote:
Tall Paul wrote:
You're seriously behind the times, Em. Apple mice have two buttons now.
Yeah, but now I can't live without the wheel.
Back when Mac mice were one-button, I just went to Wally World and bought myself a Microsoft double-button mouse with a wheel. It has side buttons too.
P.S. I like "steer and stab." I've not heard that before.
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#12 2014-10-02 22:29:07
Got moved to W8 at work two months ago. I've adapted, but there's lost features that cost me many minutes of time each day. No non-office apps on the taskbar, no direct click-to-open file links on the taskbar. Three clicks to do what took one before is what I'm saying.
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#13 2014-10-02 23:01:56
There's actually a pretty plausible explanation for why they skipped Windows 9 (besides the fact that Windows product name versioning is completely arbitrary anyway):
if(version.startswith("Windows 9")
Internally the NT versions are at least somewhat sequential:
5.0 => 2000
5.1 => XP
5.2 => XPx64/Server 2003
6.0 => Vista/Server 2008
6.1 => 7/Server 2008 R2
6.2 => 8/Server 2012
6.3 => 8.1/Server 2012 R2
6.4? => 10/Server ?
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#14 2014-10-03 06:40:04
tojo2000 wrote:
This worries me, it's not like Microsoft to be so on top of things.
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#15 2014-10-03 20:54:44
Emmeran wrote:
tojo2000 wrote:
This worries me, it's not like Microsoft to be so on top of things.
Broken clock, etc., etc...
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