Microsoft skips Windows 9 - new operating system will be called Windows 10
Ron Czapala
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-skips-windows-9-emphasize-172044547.html
The next version of Microsoft's flagship operating system will be called Windows 10, as the company skips version 9 to emphasize advances it is making toward a world centered on mobile devices and Internet services.
Joe Belfiore, a Microsoft executive who oversees Windows design and evolution, said Windows 10 will offer "the familiarity of Windows 7 with some of the benefits that exist in Windows 8" to help business users make the transition.
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http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/156924-Windows-9-Rumors?p=1296013&viewfull=1#post1296013
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Now Dave! I'm sure you value Heater's opinion as much as I do...
(Not to be confused in any litigation with OS X)
Yeah, what about that? They went from 3.1 to 95 in one swoop. Then from 98 (where did 97 go?), all the way up to 2000. These guys don't know how to count!
Seriously, this is why they (temporarily) switched to named products: XP and Vista had no implied heritage, though everyone knew they were Windows 5 and 6. Yet, how boring is that? I think MS should start naming their releases the same way car makers name their models. I want to use the new Windows Armada. Or how about the Windows Quest. Now THOSE are cool names.
All this reminds me of an unintentional slight I supposedly made to the fine city of Chicago. Way back I wrote a book, part of a series, called "I Hate Windows." It was in the For Dummies mold, and in fact, was intended as a direct competitor. My book covered Win 3.1. They planned a new edition of the book for the next release of Windows -- you remember the codename for Windows 95 was "Chicago."
In the book trade there's a publication, formerly only seen by booksellers, for forthcoming books in print. My book, "I Hate Chicago," was proudly listed. Only it never came out, because although my title had decent numbers, the others in the series didn't live up to expectations, so the publisher shelved all of them.
Now comes Amazon, which to fill out their catalog of books raids Forthcoming Books in Print, and suddenly I'm the author of what must be a distasteful critique of the Windy City. It's still listed as an "out of print" book, which technically is true.
http://www.amazon.com/I-Hate-Chicago-Gordon-McComb/dp/1565299221
You realize there is an important marketing reasoning behind this right? Windows 7 is the last "stable" platform and this will become a way to pressure the public into thinking they need to upgrade because they have a version that is 3 versions out of date.. sheesh..
The year of Linux approaches...
By all means, they should have jumped directly to Windows 11.
LOL!
I'm so not cool, hip, or even interested in popular entertainment, yet I recognize Spinal Tap. Strikes me as almost unbelievable.
Windows 3.x - Version 3
Windows 95 - Version 4
Windows 98 - Version 5
Windows ME (Win 98 with gaudy lipstick) - Version 5.1
Windows NT 3.1 - Version 6
Windows NT 4.0 - Version 6.1
Windows 2000 - Version 6.2
Windows XP - Version 7
Windows Vista - Version 8
Windows 7 - Version 9
Windows 8 - Version 10
Windows 9 - (Skipped)
Windows 10 - Version 11
I knew of Brian Livingston, but not the others that co-wrote the Secrets books. I met Brian a few times at Comdex, where authors would trot out their hot best-selling books to get free stuff from vendors!
I didn't get much free stuff.
Windows 7 is a close second, but the Aeroglass shell is a resource hog, but the addition of on demand privilege escalation makes up for it. Windows XP is third as it is near as lean as 2000, but not as secure as 7. Both have the activation feature which can be a headaches at times.
Don't talk to me about Vista, Windows 8, or the Office ribbon bar. I hate them with the fury of a billion exploding stars.
Except that list is wrong...
The NT and 2000 entries is from the SERVER line, and were made in parallell with the desktop OS line.
Convergence didn't really start until Win2000 and XP.
And the WinNT numbering sequence is based on MS LAN Manager and OS/2...
(I'm so old that I remember INSTALLING OS/2 1.3 with Lan Manager 2.2... )
You also missed NT 3.51, which is what anyone sane ran as soon as they could, instead of 3.1, or even 3.50
NT was a totally different thing.
So it's more like:
Windows NT 3.1 - Version 3
Windows NT 4.0 - Version 4
Windows 2000 - Version 5
Windows XP - Version 6
Windows Vista - Version 7
Windows 7 - Version 8
Windows 8 - Version 9
Windows 9 - Version 10 (skipped?)
Windows 10 - Version 11
In order to restore order to the universe MS would have to delete everything they ever wrote
you mean the ones that havent switched to linux yet? lm sure this will help them transition. of course, some folks never will, just as theres folks that still ride horses. theres a place for everything, even microsoft.
I said "Who cares any more?". My observation is that most Windows users don't care. They don't salivate and get all excited when a new Windows version is coming. Possibly the last time that happened was when Windows 2000 came out. As noted as Martin_H hinted at above. People are as exited about Windows as buyers of Ford Transit vans. I.e. not at all.
On the contrary I hear and read Windows users fretting all the time about what mess is coming from MS next and how can they get back to what they had before.
So yes, you are right, in as much as it makes Windows users nervous as to what they will have to deal with in the future I guess they do care.
Of course most Windows users care about the operating system they use. It bugs them when the lose a feature that they had in the previous version of Windows. However, most users are oblivious to security enhancements, and features that they don't normally use. It seems that Microsoft messes up every other release that they produce, and then they fix it in the next release. Vista is an example of a version they messed up, and then fixed it in XP. XP had a few security holes, but they were fixed in patches. I'm still using XP on my laptop at work even though the IT department has stopped supporting it when Microsoft stopped their support.
Windows 7 is also a good OS, but it is missing a few things that I liked in XP. I use Windows 7 on my desktop computer at home. We have Windows 8 on my son's laptop and my wife's Surface. I helped my son install a device driver for a game controller on his laptop, and the lack of the Start menu made it very difficult. I had to resort to Googling how other people had done it, and followed the instructions in a YouTube video that some teenager had posted. I got it installed, but it was complicated because Windows 8 shields the user from the lower levels of the OS.
I ran into a similar problem with my wife's Surface, and a Start menu would have made things a lot easier. Hopefully, Windows 9 10 will resolve this issue.
I use Linux at work, and I like it for doing work things like writing code and compiling code. I also use Cygwin on my Windows machine, which provides the same command-line environment as Linux. As I mentioned several times before, I'm a command-line type of person. I use vi for editing and do all my code development from the command line. I've never used a GUI under Linux, but some of my co-workers do.
Gordon,
You missed Windows 2.1. (Windows/286 and Windows/386).
I tossed a sealed version of Windows/286 in the dumpster 10 years ago. Could have been worth a little money on ebay to a collector now.
Really?!?
I hadn't noticed
I would have traded you several incredibly valuable laser diodes for that!
Seems to me, from my observation of the interaction between people and their computers that most Windows bashing comes from Windows users themselves. I mean, why was this thread started?
Mac users don't so bash as look down their noses at Windows.
Linux users just yawn at the news. They do tend to whine a bit when all the Windows users they have to deal with make life inconvenient.