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How bad is Windows 8.1?.

They are giving it away for free to students.
 
oldguyzer said:
Technical previews are already available...under the name Windows 9.
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They decided to fast forward to Windows 10. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/m...indows-10-173917097--finance.html?cache=clear

The new system, due out next year, restores the traditional start button menu, a feature which many PC users demanded back after it was omitted in Windows 8.


An early version of the software, demonstrated on stage by Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore, showed two modes, one optimized for touch-controlled tablets, and one for PCs with mice and keyboard. Users can switch between the two depending on the device.
 
Sarah said:
They decided to fast forward to Windows 10. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/m...indows-10-173917097--finance.html?cache=clear

The new system, due out next year, restores the traditional start button menu, a feature which many PC users demanded back after it was omitted in Windows 8.


An early version of the software, demonstrated on stage by Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore, showed two modes, one optimized for touch-controlled tablets, and one for PCs with mice and keyboard. Users can switch between the two depending on the device.
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Windows 10 at least unifies all the Window snumbering schemes, which is the supposed purpose of the new name. I guess Windows 9 was release 8.1.
 
oldguyzer said:
Windows 10 at least unifies all the Window snumbering schemes, which is the supposed purpose of the new name. I guess Windows 9 was release 8.1.
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Are you going to sign up to be a guinea pig to help work out all the bugs? :geek:
 
Sarah said:
Are you going to sign up to be a guinea pig to help work out all the bugs? :geek:
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It's Microsoft software. there are no bugs. Only "unintentional features".

And I already have the technical release.
 
Sarah said:
I'm serious! Your techiness really turns me on. :Battingeyelashes:

Nothing like a man who knows his way around a computer. :wink2:
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Or a human body....advantages to being able to explore and fix both, make them both hummmmmmm :biggrin2:
 
Windows 8 reminds me of Windows first releases.

Windows itself was not an operating system it was a GUI "over lay" for DOS.
The idea behind it was to allow IBM compete for the kids entering the job market.
These kids grew up on MAC in the schools. DOS was not a graphical interface and IBM saw that as a problem
So the approached Bill Gates for a solution.

Out came Windows and it filled the gap. Not so much with computer professionals, who still preferred DOS.

Later on came 95 ( first working version of windows ) and that was still just an over lay.
The same was true of 98, ME and XP.
XP was hugely popular because the PRO version was intuitive to use.

Along comes VISTA which was in fact a revamped OS and self contained.
It was such a radical departure from XP but a necessary evil.

Windows 7 brought back the features people loved in XP while still working with the new OS and people once again loved it.

The growth of the TABLET has spurred the need to being able to truly and seamlessly move between the Smartphone, Tablet and PC or Lap Top.

8 was already a mobile system that sotra worked so into the market came the Full Blown version.
In a similar fashion it has been accepted by younger users and rejected by the older ones.

Windows 9 was to be an expanded version of 8.x with better features and compatibility.

8.x was so universally paned by business that Microsoft decided to abandon it completely.
And scrapped 9.x.

10 will be to 8 what 7 was to Vista...........Same operating system as 8.x but bringing back the beloved look and feel of 7.x
 
Sarah said:
'Unicorn bug' found in Microsoft's Windows that has been there since 1995

It could be one of the oldest bugs in the computer world.

Microsoft today issued a patch for a major security hole in its Windows software that it admitted has been there for 19 years.

Experts at IBM spotted the bug - and found it was even present in the code for Windows 95.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2832157/Unicorn-bug-Microsoft-s-Windows-1985.html
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The problem is for the hacker to find someone browsing with Internet Explorer.

I used IE 6 long after it was updated, because that one was still designed for dial up users. Because it used to take dialup connections about 45 minutes to fully buffer a two minute video, IE 6 would store a copy of streaming videos, usually in .mov, (Apple Quicktime video), in C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files, so you wouldn't have to wait 45 minutes if you wanted to see it again. That was also the only way to snag YouTube videos for a while, until they made free software that saves those in Xvid or .mp4. In those days, the stored file was usually .flv, (flash video), and you could only watch it with the Quicktime player.

You couldn't open the files from there, but you could copy/ paste them to a permanent folder. Most people didn't know that, because Local Settings was a hidden folder, as were its sub files and subfolders, by default, but you could change that in Properties. All of the photos that you couldn't normally download, because when you right-clicked, a popup box said 'This function has been disabled' had copies in that folder as well, but you had to sort the details properly, because you might have 1,000 temp files named 'pic01.jpg', and you had to match them up with the proper url, since Thumbnails view was not available, it being a temporary file. Sometimes I think the only people who knew how to do that were me, and my students.

You had to be a lot smarter to use a computer, back then.
 
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