Rest assured that Windows 7 will continue to be fully supported for a long time, with mainstream support continuing until January 13, 2015, and extended support continuing until January 14, 2020.
Windows 9
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Windows 9 might be free...
That'd be a bold move.
That'd be a bold move.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Bold? Yes. Stupid? Probably.
This is a great idea if they plan to use it to increase their install base even further and then leverage that base through going gung-ho on the PC gaming front and similar initiatives. But they won't do that. They're sacrificing their biggest cash cow for ... what? To sell a few more copies of Microsoft Office? If it were anything else we should already see them making a move to push into that market that this move would later bolster.
Someone somewhere had the seed of a good idea, and since then it wilted and died on the vine.
This is a great idea if they plan to use it to increase their install base even further and then leverage that base through going gung-ho on the PC gaming front and similar initiatives. But they won't do that. They're sacrificing their biggest cash cow for ... what? To sell a few more copies of Microsoft Office? If it were anything else we should already see them making a move to push into that market that this move would later bolster.
Someone somewhere had the seed of a good idea, and since then it wilted and died on the vine.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Windows 10
What the fuck just happened? Have I been asleep for 6 years? Where did Windows 9 go?
What the fuck just happened? Have I been asleep for 6 years? Where did Windows 9 go?
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
...............Leisher wrote:Windows 10
What the fuck just happened? Have I been asleep for 6 years? Where did Windows 9 go?
I hope they have lots of millenials in charge of windows 10 that think having a "clean interface" with less functionality is what people want in windows (missing start button, android/chrome dropping the refresh button).
Let's hope they don't discover DOS.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Yeah, been reading around about it... looks like they are skipping 9 completely, making 10 their last official Windows release, and just providing "updates" on a pay-system.Leisher wrote:Windows 10
What the fuck just happened? Have I been asleep for 6 years? Where did Windows 9 go?
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."