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Old 01-10-2014, 07:13 AM
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Windows 9 is no more.... it is now Windows 10

Which is probably more correct.

1) Windows
2) Windows 2
3) Windows 3.x
4) Win9x/Nt 4.x
5) Windows 2000/ME
6) Windows XP
7)Windows Vista
8) Windows 7
9) Windows 8

But based on the picture I can now see there "logic", but obviously someone has forgotten how to count.

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They've been desperate to catch up with Apple for years

Remember the old IE number jumping too?
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Old 01-10-2014, 10:32 AM
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Windows 10

Thanks for the link. Windows 10 looks like it has some nice features.
I wish they had skipped Windows 8. What a nightmare that is.
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Old 01-10-2014, 04:37 PM
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Reminds me of Boeing... Chronologically:

707, 727, 737, 747, 767, 757, 777, 717... (the 717 actually being an MD-95 )
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Reminds me of Boeing... Chronologically:

707, 727, 737, 747, 767, 757, 777, 717... (the 717 actually being an MD-95 )
Does that mean Boeing stops making new passenger jets when it runs out of 7x7 designations? There's only the multiply faked 797 to go.
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Old 01-10-2014, 05:08 PM
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I missed the 720, but that is a 707 off-shoot anyway.

I guess there WILL be a 7X7 eventually, but would the next be a 7XI7? 808 might be better.
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Which is probably more correct.

1) Windows
2) Windows 2
3) Windows 3.x
4) Win9x/Nt 4.x
5) Windows 2000/ME
6) Windows XP
7)Windows Vista
8) Windows 7
9) Windows 8

But based on the picture I can now see there "logic", but obviously someone has forgotten how to count.
Tsk.. Missed one. Windows 95?
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Old 01-10-2014, 05:30 PM
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Tsk.. Missed one. Windows 95?
And Win98, both covered by 'Win9x' but were they that much the same? I thought they were quite different but it was a while ago now, my memory of them is not so good, except that I was a big fan of 98 and 98SE
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ndows_versions
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And Win98, both covered by 'Win9x' but were they that much the same? I thought they were quite different but it was a while ago now, my memory of them is not so good, except that I was a big fan of 98 and 98SE
Windows 95 was a shell interface over win 3.1. You could make win 95 look like win 3.1 again with a few clicks of the mouse. Windows 98 was totally revamped and improved version.

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Having a look tomorrow at Win10 on a laptop.
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Old 02-10-2014, 04:35 PM
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Ah, good times...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/261...indows-10.html

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Old 02-10-2014, 07:31 PM
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So why did they call it Windows 10.......

Because Windows 7, 8, 9
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Old 03-10-2014, 06:59 AM
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Had a real quick peek last night on an ASUS laptop. Very responsive. The start button is back You still can have the buttons/tablet display as per Win8 but it's more of a conventional desktop interface. I've never used 8. I'm still on 7. So I didn't know what to expect. Coming from 7 it was fairly painless to find my way around the navigation. At first glance I liked it a lot.
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Makes me want to stay with the fruit style manufacturing.
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I'm hearing a lot of people actually looked forward to Windows 9, especially the upcoming service packs, Windows 9.5 and Windows 9.8...

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Tom's Hardware Guide has this on Win10 that shows a series of pictures of the desktop and Start menu.
The Win 8 system resides under the start menu where access to the varios folders resides in Win7 above the Shut Down button.
http://www.tomshardware.com/pictures...threshold.html
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