# And to all: A Good Night **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519 "2015-02-01T16:55:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/1 "2015-02-01T16:55:22Z")
Dear Fellow Members, I am about to embark on a journey into the unknown. A path I know is fraught with danger and trials and tribulation. My trusty laptop which has served me so well in my travels over this planet is about to be upgraded to Windows 10 (Developers Preview) If you don’t hear from me again in 48 hours, your will find my listless body along the shore of Lake Michigan muttering “Why? Why?”. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/2 "2015-02-01T20:48:33Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > Dear Fellow Members, > > I am about to embark on a journey into the unknown. A path I know is fraught with danger and trials and tribulation. > My trusty laptop which has served me so well in my travels over this planet is about to be upgraded to Windows 10 (Developers Preview) > If you don’t hear from me again in 48 hours, your will find my listless body along the shore of Lake Michigan muttering “Why? Why?”. Best Wishes & May You Avoid the Blue Screen of Death! But wait… that’s for the Real person, the one that exists IRL out there, somewhere. What about the internet persona in your laptop? All their files? Their whole world that might be trapped in your PC, behind that BSoD forever? Who worries about what could happen to [him](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcPIA_E6AXg)? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/3 "2015-02-01T20:55:43Z")
What happened to Windows 9? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/4 "2015-02-02T00:37:48Z")
For God’s sake, don’t do it!!! Think of your family!!! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/5 "2015-02-02T00:46:44Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > What happened to Windows 9? Victim of marketing decisions. They skipped the name and went to 10. ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/6 "2015-02-02T01:57:49Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Victim of marketing decisions. They skipped the name and went to 10. 10 … you know, that could be in binary. Which would mean return to good ol’ Windows 3.whatever as the next one after it! Time is a loop, right? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/7 "2015-02-02T02:34:46Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Victim of marketing decisions. They skipped the name and went to 10. Maybe because it sounded too much like “Windows? Nein!” ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/8 "2015-02-02T04:48:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Maybe because it sounded too much like “Windows? Nein!” Like how German nuns count to 10 “vier, funf, \ p-tui, sieben” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/9 "2015-02-02T05:14:01Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > What happened to Windows 9? As no one else has, I’ll give the correct answer; seven ate nine. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/10 "2015-02-02T05:18:15Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > My trusty laptop which has served me so well in my travels over this planet is about to be upgraded to Windows 10 (Developers Preview) Aren’t you upgrading to the consumer preview instead of the developer preview? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/11 "2015-02-02T05:20:34Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > What happened to Windows 9? Microsoft has decided to use base-8 numbering for its operating system. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/12 "2015-02-02T07:35:27Z")
For me it would be a very stupid thing to only have one computer. I have two backups. My impression is that laptops are trickier to change operating systems on than desktops–special drivers, etc. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/13 "2015-02-02T12:32:44Z")
Has Microsoft decided to change their policy on upgrades from the developer versions, or are you ready to install new when the time comes? (I assume you aren’t doing what I do and cloning the drive before installing. or else there’s be no problem at all coming back if the installation failed. With a slight registry flip, you can even boot straight from the clone. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/14 "2015-02-02T13:19:37Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > … If you don’t hear from me again in 48 hours, your will find my listless body along the shore of Lake Michigan muttering “Why? Why?”. \*Please \*remember to document your travels for those who may follow [xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients](http://xkcd.com/979/) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/15 "2015-02-02T14:59:34Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > As no one else has, I’ll give the correct answer; seven ate nine. Probably the canonical answer. I think, though, that in reality eight ate nine. But that’s not as funny. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/16 "2015-02-02T15:50:41Z")
Once you get there, will you be able to report back? Has anyone? :: ominous silence :: ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-all-a-good-night/711519/17 "2015-02-02T20:32:20Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Probably the canonical answer. I think, though, that in reality eight ate nine. But that’s not as funny. Yeah, 7 is kinda skinny to have eaten a full bodied number like 9. 8, OTOH…