Microsoft looks to distance itself from Windows 8, jumps to Windows 10

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  • Reply 21 of 214

    From the Verge Q&A:

     





    Q: Now it's Windows 10, will we see future versions named after big cats?


    11:01:46 AM PDT


    A: Probably not.


  • Reply 22 of 214
    Finding an app on that Metro checkerboard is like looking for a needle in a haystack
  • Reply 23 of 214
    So the new Windows 10 is the Old Windows 7 married to Windows 8, they should have called it Windows 15 (7 8=15), they can't add. I would prefer they just abandon Windows 8 completely and go back to Windows 7. I have a Windows 7 machine and like it fine and I also have a Windows 8 laptop and Hate Hate Hate it. I don't want any of Windows 8 married with Windows 7. I have a touch screen device that works an iPad, I have no desire to use Windows touch, I have a touch screen on my Windows 8 laptop and I wish I could disable it, I point to the screen without even touching it and it goes off following some link, it bugs the heck out of me. I can not find anything on that machine, I pin the programs I use to the task bar and just give up on finding anything else in that stupid Metro start menu.
  • Reply 24 of 214

    WAIT A MINUTE.

     

    No one has made a Seven ate Nine joke yet?!

     

    Originally Posted by Garysturn View Post

    So the new Windows 10 is the Old Windows 7 married to Windows 8, they should have called it Windows 15 (7 8=15), they can't add. 

     

    This just tells you that the whole is LESS than the sum of its parts.

  • Reply 25 of 214

    Maybe the next one will be called 

     

    Windows San Andreas Fault

  • Reply 26 of 214
    lilgto64lilgto64 Posts: 1,147member

    Two steps forward, three steps back. 

     

    So the solution to a failed product is to kludge it together with a successful product and hope no one will notice that you skipped a number? 

     

    The names and numbers are relatively irrelevant - more of a marketing thing than anything else - and under the covers it will likely remain something along the lines of build 14.889.11344revision37

  • Reply 27 of 214
    That's bollocks for a start!

    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????
  • Reply 28 of 214
    Originally Posted by DarenDino View Post
    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???? 


     

     

    If you look at their build numbers (or whatever), you’ll see why they numbered them the way they did.

  • Reply 29 of 214
    Windows 9… so bad they were afraid to release it?

    Seriously, running a hybrid OS is not the best thing to do. No one will be happy. Again.
  • Reply 30 of 214
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by dnd0ps View Post



    Oh, and the next update will be called 10.1 (Big Cat), and 10.2, and eventually it's Windows X eh? Wonder where that came from



    Windows 10.3 (Copy cat), 10.4 (Scaredy Cat), ...

  • Reply 31 of 214
    WAIT A MINUTE.

    No one has made a Seven ate Nine joke yet?!


    This just tells you that the whole is LESS than the sum of its parts.

    I think you meant "7 of 9"
  • Reply 32 of 214

    They should call it Windows ZERO. 

  • Reply 33 of 214

    ADVERTISING IN THE START MENU! <img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" /><img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" /><img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" /><img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" /><img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" /><img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" /><img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" /><img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" />

  • Reply 34 of 214

    Windows 10 event: Maybe 40 people...

     

    Apple Yosemite event: Tons of people...

  • Reply 35 of 214
    mac_128mac_128 Posts: 3,454member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by bobborries View Post



    Apple should crank it up to 11

    Apple really should not have released 10.10. They should have used this opportunity to create a new brand for their Mac OS, not necessarily 11, but a complete departure from the old way of doing things.

  • Reply 36 of 214
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post



    If you look at their build numbers (or whatever), you’ll see why they numbered them the way they did.

     

    And they think this is going to save them from the Star Trek Movie Syndrome...

  • Reply 37 of 214

    Yeah… Operating System Ten. That's the ticket. Now, what snappy acronym could we use: OS----something. It will come to me soon.

  • Reply 38 of 214
    jmc54jmc54 Posts: 207member
    Now that's innovation!
  • Reply 39 of 214
    edred wrote: »
    They should just call it Windows X.

    I'm gonna' wait for WindowsXXX ...
  • Reply 40 of 214

    Windows 8: Good idea, terrible execution. Seems like the way this whole project was managed is design by committee. Once it was done, marketing probably had no idea how to educate people how to use it. The result is just a colossal lump of software no one can really optimally use. 

     

    The funny thing is, MS had the opportunity to start from scratch with Windows RT. No baggage of legacy code there, but instead they tried to mimic the desktop. Trying to design an interface that will look like it will do something when it really won't (fake desktop that will not run x86 apps) is just plain idiotic IMHO. All I can do is shake my head and smile by all this backpedaling. 

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