If the only thing Microsoft has to offer the terminally dull world of Windows computing is the use of the number "10" I can hardly wait to experience the load of uninspiring features that will pile up around the actual release. Windows PCs are about as exciting as toasters and Windows is about as exciting as a slice of white bread. Woo hoo, the thrill ride will never cease.
If the only thing Microsoft has to offer the terminally dull world of Windows computing is the use of the number "10" I can hardly wait to experience the load of uninspiring features that will pile up around the actual release. Windows PCs are about as exciting as toasters and Windows is about as exciting as a slice of white bread. Woo hoo, the thrill ride will never cease.
Oh, on the rare occasions I'm forced to use Windows, it's pretty exciting: "Will that vein in my forehead explode before I staple my eyes shut?"
This Continuum feature MS demoed for 2-in-1's actually looks cool, and nicely done. I like how when you disconnect the keyboard, it automatically goes into multitouch mode and vice versa. Imagine if OSX got multi-touch capability and could automatically go back and forth between touch and keyboard / mouse? Watch the video;
Another great feature is Windows Universal Apps. If I buy an app on one device, I can download that app, for free, on ANY other device. So no paying for separately for apps on phone, tablet, or PC. This is something Apple should implement - unify the iOS & Mac App Stores and have universal iOS & Mac apps. Pay only once.
Looks sensible so far. I like that they are adding an expose-type feature, and there looks to be a fairly nice balance between traditional and new - again, so far.
Only thing is, the tile design of W8 worked incredibly well on tablets. I wonder how they are catering for tablets with this design.
Seriously, their pitch is basically "Well, here's some stuff you liked from Win7 mixed with some stuff you liked from Win8. But it's SO NEW & FRESH that we blazed right past the number 9!"
Wasn't Windows 8 the beginning of a new generation of Windows?
Aside from being schizophrenic and, well, Windows, 8.1 is not much worse than Windows generally is by default. There's nothing "new generation" about it. Tons of arcane cruft is still hanging out in there, and the design of the actual underpinnings is pretty much still the same unintelligent nonsense with a slightly different GUI Velcroed on top. Without gutting the whole thing and killing backwards compatibility (and we've seen Metro isn't going to allow a new path to do that), it's still going to be the same damn generation: NT kernel with the same DOS trappings as always (reliance on drive letters, for example... don't even tell me that drive letters aren't required; I've already been there and experimented with not assigning drive letters, plus the damn OS itself still assigns them by default anyway... never use anything custom, and never go outside the defaults, in Windows, if you want to avoid trouble).
Windows, Windows 2, Windows 3, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME,Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1.
MS have no idea about order and numbering, they have released more than 10 versions and call their latest one Windows 10????
I hope a sarcastic news anchor introduces "and Microsoft have announced their 11th version of Windows, Windows 10..."
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Oops! Typical American "assuming everybody with a German name is Jewish". Oh well!
It was a good guess. I had to look it up.
As Paula Abdul would say "One step forward, two steps back"
Huh...I didn't think Paula Abdul could count that high.
Hardware setup? 5200 RPM, 7200 RPM, or SSD? Amount of RAM?
Core i7-4770K, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD.
Oh, on the rare occasions I'm forced to use Windows, it's pretty exciting: "Will that vein in my forehead explode before I staple my eyes shut?"
This Continuum feature MS demoed for 2-in-1's actually looks cool, and nicely done. I like how when you disconnect the keyboard, it automatically goes into multitouch mode and vice versa. Imagine if OSX got multi-touch capability and could automatically go back and forth between touch and keyboard / mouse? Watch the video;
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/continuum-microsoft-finally-makes-touch-and-mouse-make-sense-together/
Another great feature is Windows Universal Apps. If I buy an app on one device, I can download that app, for free, on ANY other device. So no paying for separately for apps on phone, tablet, or PC. This is something Apple should implement - unify the iOS & Mac App Stores and have universal iOS & Mac apps. Pay only once.
512GB SSD.
There you go.
The best part of having switched is that I can now look at this abomination and laugh.
Before that, I'd have been in tears.
Windows 9 10
Looks sensible so far. I like that they are adding an expose-type feature, and there looks to be a fairly nice balance between traditional and new - again, so far.
Only thing is, the tile design of W8 worked incredibly well on tablets. I wonder how they are catering for tablets with this design.
Aside from being schizophrenic and, well, Windows, 8.1 is not much worse than Windows generally is by default. There's nothing "new generation" about it. Tons of arcane cruft is still hanging out in there, and the design of the actual underpinnings is pretty much still the same unintelligent nonsense with a slightly different GUI Velcroed on top. Without gutting the whole thing and killing backwards compatibility (and we've seen Metro isn't going to allow a new path to do that), it's still going to be the same damn generation: NT kernel with the same DOS trappings as always (reliance on drive letters, for example... don't even tell me that drive letters aren't required; I've already been there and experimented with not assigning drive letters, plus the damn OS itself still assigns them by default anyway... never use anything custom, and never go outside the defaults, in Windows, if you want to avoid trouble).
Windows 7 of 9
Upgrading is Futile!
I hope a sarcastic news anchor introduces "and Microsoft have announced their 11th version of Windows, Windows 10..."
Send me the link when that happens
The one I am using a the moment, it is not really any slower to boot than my 2014 MBP
I do, but that image didn't contain any. The user had installed the Mint, and Trip Advisor applications and added their live tiles to their start menu
Welome to the Microsoft Assembled Code Operating System version 10. If only there was an easier way to write that¡
This is one time when spelling it out clearly doesn't help! I thought it was pretty clever though.
Looking at that picture it looks like they announced it in the broom cupboard