The sequel to Windows 8 is Windows 10

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Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VPFKnBYOSI

# ? Sep 30, 2014 18:14

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 04:50

PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

# ? Sep 30, 2014 18:17

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

"We want all these Windows 7 users to have the sentiment that yesterday they were driving a first-generation Prius... and now with Windows 10 it's like a Tesla."

# ? Sep 30, 2014 18:18

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

10 is 2 in binary, op

# ? Sep 30, 2014 18:18

pagancow: Jan 15, 2001; Video Stymie

Did they really try to do windows 1, and realized that 1.0 screenshots on yospos would make us mad so they just but a 0 behind it?

# ? Sep 30, 2014 18:20

Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

it is to make up the difference for calling the 3rd XBox the XBox One.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 18:55

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

Windows X is my favourite apple OS

# ? Sep 30, 2014 18:57

Stymie: Jan 9, 2001; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

i wouldn't be surprised if there was some marketing schlub whose hobby horse was appending all microsoft products with 'one' to present a unified front, but lost a lot of clout with the xbox one tanking

# ? Sep 30, 2014 19:01

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

pagancow posted:

Did they really try to do windows 1, and realized that 1.0 screenshots on yospos would make us mad so they just but a 0 behind it?

lmao i was wondering what all these photos were with the potatoes in the upper left. i thought those were potatoes like it was some kind of meme added onto it

# ? Sep 30, 2014 19:02

sleepy gary: Jan 11, 2006

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

lmao i was wondering what all these photos were with the potatoes in the upper left. i thought those were potatoes like it was some kind of meme added onto it

source your quotes

# ? Sep 30, 2014 19:18

poty: Jun 21, 2008; 虹はどこで終わるのですか？あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

i would call it windows 7 2

# ? Sep 30, 2014 19:38

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

they passed on the number that wouldn't sell in Germany and chose the one that would sell in France ;-*

# ? Sep 30, 2014 20:35

incoherent: Apr 24, 2004; 01010100011010000111001
00110100101101100011011
000110010101110010

poty posted:

i would call it windows 7 2

Windows 7: A realm reborn.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 20:59

LUBE UP YOUR BUTT: Jun 30, 2008

because 7 8 9 hhahahahahah

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:02

Apocadall: Mar 25, 2010; Aren't you the guitarist for the feed dogs?

still looks like poo poo and full of advertising bullshit

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:03

Widdiful: Oct 10, 2012

Windows 69

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:04

LUBE UP YOUR BUTT: Jun 30, 2008

but enough of youure posting

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:05

Mr.Radar: Nov 5, 2005; You guys aren't going to believe this, but that guy is our games teacher.

this was literally an april fools joke until it wasnt

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:09

GNU Order: Feb 28, 2011; That's a paddlin'

lol

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:11

Mathhole: Jun 2, 2011; rot in hell, wonderbread.

Mr.Radar posted:

this was literally an april fools joke until it wasnt

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:16

PissWhisk: Oct 12, 2012; quackers

Mr.Radar posted:

this was literally an april fools joke until it wasnt

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:38

qntm: Jun 17, 2009

One product family. One platform. One store. Windows, I don't know, eleven

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:47

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

they could have turned it up to 11, but only went to 10

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:52

Migishu: Oct 22, 2005; I'll eat your fucking eyeballs if you're not careful; Grimey Drawer

I'm the spinning disk on that guys finger at 0:38

# ? Sep 30, 2014 23:12

fuck. marry. t-rex: Jan 23, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

10 is 2 in binary, op

its 9 in octal

# ? Sep 30, 2014 23:21

DamnGlitch: Sep 2, 2004

xbox one, windows 10... I don't think microsoft can count.

# ? Oct 1, 2014 05:07

Fax Sender: Aug 11, 2013; kiss my ass

yes please make more threads about this

# ? Oct 1, 2014 05:11

Rahu: Feb 14, 2009; let me just check my figures real quick here; Grimey Drawer

Prodigal T-REX posted:

its 9 in octal

no it isn't, 10 is 8 in octal

10 is 9 in uh, nonal?

# ? Oct 1, 2014 05:12

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

two is one and one is none

# ? Oct 1, 2014 23:28

MononcQc: May 29, 2007

# ? Oct 2, 2014 02:30

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

MononcQc posted:

makes sense. I think we should all be thankful they didn't knuckle under to what must have been significant pressure from marketing.

# ? Oct 2, 2014 02:32

MononcQc: May 29, 2007

rotor posted:

makes sense. I think we should all be thankful they didn't knuckle under to what must have been significant pressure from marketing.

https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22windows+9%22%29

# ? Oct 2, 2014 02:33

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

i call sorta-bs. afaik none of the functions in the windows api or .net return a string like that

and besides you could just call it "windows nine" and be done with it

# ? Oct 2, 2014 02:34

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

MononcQc posted:

https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22windows+9%22%29

WHat programs work fine on windows 1/2/3.1/xp/7/8 but not windows 95/98/me?

# ? Oct 2, 2014 02:34

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

rotor posted:

makes sense. I think we should all be thankful they didn't knuckle under to what must have been significant pressure from marketing.

marketing probably wanted windows 11 to outdo apple

# ? Oct 2, 2014 02:35

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

Cold on a Cob posted:

i call sorta-bs. afaik none of the functions in the windows api or .net return a string like that

and besides you could just call it "windows nine" and be done with it

i don't know anything about programming but i've read read lots of "the old new thing" blog by raymond chen and if i've learned one thing about programming is that most programmers are lovely idiots so it seems plausible to me

the amount of articles on that blog that go "here's this herculean thing we had to do because otherwise everything would break" is mind boggling

# ? Oct 2, 2014 13:04

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

i mean look at this

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/07/27/4072156.aspx

quote:

But why did the programmers choose to use the foreground window anyway?

One possibility is the programmer's version of the politician's fallacy.

We must pass a window.
The foreground window is a window.
Therefore, we must pass it.

Another possibility is that they did this on purpose in order to ensure that their error message steals focus. Because their program is the most important program in the history of mankind.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/02/16/533250.aspx

quote:

Programs were discouraged from rejecting the suspend operation without receiving confirmation from the user, although this was not enforced because a program might have a legitimate need to fail the suspend silently. What would that legitimate need be? Who knows, but maybe there is one out there, and Windows was being flexible enough to allow for that possibility.

As Huat Chye Lim pointed out over on the Windows Mobile PC Team Blog, the result of this was that everybody considered themselves to be one of these "exceptional" cases that didn't need to get user confirmation before rejecting a suspend request. Ultimately, the result was that for many users, the suspend command simply never worked. Programmers were trusted to do the right thing, and they abused that trust.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/03/54760.aspx

quote:

In IE, we gave programmatic access to the Favorites menu, and once again, programs spammed themselves into it.

In Windows XP we intentionally did not give programmatic access to the bold list of items at the top of the Start menu (the "pin list"). The pin list is for users to put their favorite icons. It is not the place for a program to decide unilaterally, "I am so cool. I am your favorite icon. I just know it. So I'll put myself there because, well, I'm so cool."

Because we knew that the moment we let people mess with the pin list, everybody would install themselves into it and it would become meaningless (and annoying).

What's particularly galling are the programs that, as part of their install, decide that they are so cool they want to be everywhere to make sure you don't miss out on the coolest most amazing program ever written in the history of mankind, so they go into the Start menu, into the Fast items, onto the desktop, into the Quick Launch, onto your Favorites, take over as your default autoplay handler, and even hang out as an icon next to the clock on the taskbar just in case you somehow missed all those other places - and each time you run them, they go and recreate those icons and settings in case you "accidentally lost them".

and this is just after a 5 minute search

programmers are awful

# ? Oct 2, 2014 13:56

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

i don't know anything about programming but i've read read lots of "the old new thing" blog by raymond chen and if i've learned one thing about programming is that most programmers are lovely idiots so it seems plausible to me

the amount of articles on that blog that go "here's this herculean thing we had to do because otherwise everything would break" is mind boggling

that's why i said sorta-bs. i don't doubt it's possible. apparently the java sdk does do something like the op says for example (not a java guy but that's the code example i did see in this discussion). just, afaik, nothing in the win32 api or .net framework do that

to be more specific, no api as far as i know exists that returns a string like 'windows 95', all the functions that return os information do it encoded as major & minor version, so when you want to see if you are on win7 for example you look for 6 major 1 minor iirc

# ? Oct 2, 2014 14:07

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

i mean look at this

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/07/27/4072156.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/02/16/533250.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/03/54760.aspx

and this is just after a 5 minute search

programmers are awful

that last one drives me nuts. i deleted your stupid startup entry in the registry for a reason, dammit :argh:

# ? Oct 2, 2014 15:55

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ewe2: Jul 1, 2009

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

10 is 2 in binary, op

They were going for octal and screwed that up too.

# ? Oct 2, 2014 16:06

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