So, waddya all think of Windows 10?

In My Humble Opinion
1

Ever since the abomination of Windows 8 came out, I’ve been resisting the urge to buy a new PC, hoping I could hold out for a more reasonable desktop operating system. Now, the long awaited announcement about Windows 9 came out, and lo and behold, MS decided to jump directly to Windows 10!

(Personally, I would have jumped to 11 - “this one goes to eleven!” - the marketing would have written itself)

Anyone have any opinions yet? I know the data are meager, but info has got to start pouring in soon. Is it time to upgrade at last?

2

All I want out of life is a computer that will keep my checkbook balanced and my recipes organized. Is that so much to ask?

3

I think MS might be acknowledging that all even-numbered Windows editions suck.

4

Yeah, kind of like the opposite of Star Trek movies. That’s why I’m surprised they were willing to go with two evens in a row.

5

So, is your participation here checkbook or recipes?

(Sorry, I find those “all I want is [something super simple’” claims disingenuous or blinkered. Nearly everyone wants to do a lot of things with their “computer,” especially the new and really kewl stuff, and those needs and their baggage tend to push the whole cycle forward.)

If you can really live without a modern browser, HTML5, Web 2.0, video and so forth you’ll never need to update your computer past maybe XP. Oh, you want the video chat feature of Facebook? Sorry, your recipe filer won’t do that…

6

Extrapolation left as an exercise for the student. :dubious:

7

I guess Windows 9 was such a Lovecraftian horror that they decided to abandon it entirely, hide the records and deny they were ever working on it.

Somewhere there’s a private mental institution populated with ex-programmers who obsessively cover the walls of their rooms with eerily disturbing computer code and repetitions of the number “9”.

8

I’m pretty interested in it, although I don’t hate 8.1.

9

Grammarian here:

The proper form of “Whaddya all” is “Whaddy’all”.

Thanks!

:wink:

10

No, the even-numbered one are good. The odd-numbered versions are the sucky ones. XP was good. Vista sucked. 7 was good. 8 sucks.

This time, they’re just cheating us out of a good version and skipping directly to a sucky one. Because they’re, you know, sadists. In fact, this was a rather prophetic April fools’ story back in 2013: Microsoft skips ‘too good’ Windows 9, jumps to Windows 10.

11

Is this a whoosh? When I was in school, 7 was considered an odd number and 8 was generally acknowledged to be even.

12

Um, yeah. I don’t know what happened there. My brain needs a restart.

13

Go straight to version 11.

14

What iteration of Windows is 8? Is it an even version or an odd one, meaning when you count Win 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8…is there any that I missed in that string? If not, it’s the 10th version & an even number no matter what it’s marketing name/# is.

This is where I thought Martian Bigfoot was going with his comment

15

3 was good.

16

the world has changed since you were in school.

17

[QUOTE=Spiderman]
…Win 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8…is there any that I missed in that string? If not, it’s the 10th version & an even number no matter what it’s marketing name/# is.
[/QUOTE]

NT and 2000 come to mind.

[QUOTE=Martian Bigfoot]
Um, yeah. I don’t know what happened there. My brain needs a restart.
[/QUOTE]

Still running on ME? :eek:

18

They also considered “Windows One” but that name was used long ago by Bill Gates… not sure why that would be a handicap, but “10” it is.

19

Microsoft has screwed around with version numbers before. Do you know what the official, internal version number is for Windows 7?

It is Windows 6.1 but Windows Vista was 6.0 so they jumped a number for marketing purposes to disassociate it from Vista. They are or at least were essentially the same operating system with different user interfaces. Many people mistakenly think that Operating System and user interlace are basically synonymous but they are not. The vast majority of the operating system is the low level code that does things you cannot even see directly. You can slap modifications to the user interface onto an operating system but it doesn’t change most of the operating system itself. I suppose Windows 10 will be marketed as such to the public while it will be Windows 8.0 internally within Microsoft and to developers. Maybe the one after that can be Windows 42 if they want to start getting whimsical.

20

If I remember correctly, they were corporate PC versions & not home PC versions, which is why I excluded them.