Introducing the next version of Windows. You're gunna love what Microsoft called it

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#62

It wasn’t good when it first came out, because of the hardware available at that time. After a few service packs, and hardware progressed, it became a decent OS. But by then, most people already moved on to 7.

Now everyone should be on the latest OS, to get all the up to date features. Just like how Windows 8.1 is the best for gaming right now. In just Battlefield 4 alone, there is almost a 25% performance increase in 8.1, over 7 (on the same hardware).

Plus, 8.1 is cool. You don’t have to use the metro part. You can even get a program that makes a Windows 7 start menu in 8.1.

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#63

It’s back :smiley:

#64

Soo…
It isn’t out yet?

#65

I installed the tech demo in a Virtual Machine

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#66

Freaking hell, that start menu looks absolutely horrible. How big could you possibly make it!?

#67

No date when it is coming out?

@Stian I like this, since when I have start menu open I don’t need to see my desktop.

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#68

As big as you want…

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#69

Nope, no official release date…

#70

from windows 8 to 10… they can’t count

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#71

Actually they can because how would they make passwords without number knowledge

#72

It’s a joke.
-_-

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#73

I know (i went along with the joke)

#74

Fair enough

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#75

I would like to call @Stian “A strange liker and hater (No Offense)”

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#76

lol :stuck_out_tongue: I mean, the start menu is way bigger than I would like. But I guess people have preferences.

#77

There are a few reasons for them to skip Windows 9, and go straight to 10.

The most dominate, is probably the “lazy coder theory”;

If you’re not code literate, allow me to explain. An easy (and lazy, and bad) way to check what version of Windows a user is running is to just read in the first little bit of the name the operating system is using to identify itself. There are better ways to do it, but if that first bit reads “Windows 9” it means the operating system has to be either Windows 95 or Windows 98.

Unless of course there’s a Windows 9.

It’s a y2k sort of problem, where programmers either didn’t think the Windows naming scheme could ever generate another “Windows 9x” version, or didn’t want to bother future-proofing their code to control for it. And while it’s just an unsubstantiated theory that this is why the name is Windows 10, the problem this coder brings up is verifiably a common shortcut. We’ve reached out to Microsoft for comment, but we may never really know. What’s for sure though is that this name just happens to solve one big, obnoxious problem.

(It’s not just programs, drivers did it, api’s, etc.)

Another theory;

It could also be point releases from the NT kernel

Kernel version 3.1 = NT 3.1

Kernel version 3.5 = NT 3.5

Kernel version 4.0 = NT 4.0

Kernel version 5.0 = Windows 2000

Kernel version 5.1 = Windows XP

Kernel version 6.0 = Windows Vista

Kernel version 6.1 = Windows 7

Kernel version 6.2 = Windows 8

Kernel version 6.3 = Windows 8.1

Kernel version 6.4 = Windows 10 and is the 10th NT kernel release.

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#78

@Killertoad I checked winver in the Win10 Tech Preview, and it has a kernal version of NT 6.4

#79

@Stian It can be resized :smile:, but I prefer mine tall and thin

#80

I’m gonna miss Metro… I actually liked it! Separating myself from my ugly desktop. I only use it on this computer though, I wont bother buying Microsoft’s spyware another time :slight_smile:

(I dont give a crap if it isn’t spyware, technically it is. Microsoft collect information from your computer which can not be stopped. Wikipedia says that spyware is, I quote,

…a software that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge and may send such information to another entity without the consumer consent…

which it is, so no need to go into a discussion with that. The Unity Shopping Lens is also spyware, but I dont use Ubuntu so I dont care.)

#81

It does tell you it takes information and data from you. When you first install Windows, it makes you agree to a terms agreement. And in that it tells you what it will take. Lol

And alright I’ll change the x.x

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