THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: MCD on September 30, 2014, 05:53:28 PM
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We skipped 9 to break the curse:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6868695/microsoft-windows-10-announced-official
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NI5fjTfpQ
Full press event video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfveyXCsiA8
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What? Where's 9
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GOD THAT GUYS HAIR
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WinTen
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GOD THAT GUYS HAIR
(http://i.imgur.com/qE2zBIJ.jpg)
Enterprise vs. Consumer edition.
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We have our new j allard :uguu
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Basically the new features are they let you do shit you use to be able to do before they took them away. Also virtual desktops and window snap, which is nice but I have a program to do snaps and virtual desktops should have been added like 8 years ago.
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The separate desktops is actually a pretty good idea
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"The best windows yet"
... You mean there will be an eventual announcement of the "not our best, but it'll do for now" version of windows?
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he sort of looks like steve perry
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The separate desktops is actually a pretty good idea
Another feature dirt poors didn't know existed in other operating systems for years.
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Why "Windows 10"? Windows 9 was the "natural" name for this release, Terry Myerson said, and was indeed the original name. But after joking about a few fake names—like Windows One—he noted that this isn't an incremental release. It's a major new Windows that will run on everything from headless Internet of Things devices to phones to tablets to PCs to the Xbox to the cloud. They really wanted to segregate it from current Windows versions.
Continuum: One major new feature. Of course, Microsoft still needs to address the problem of switching between the two interfaces that collided in Windows 8—the mobile environment formerly called Metro and the classic desktop interface—especially on 2-in-1 devices. For example, if you have a Surface Pro 3 and unplug the keyboard, should Windows still work the same way? A feature called Continuum, not available in the Technical Preview, will introduce tablet and keyboard modes that react on the fly depending on the hardware you're using. So we won't know for a while how well it works.
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No announcement of what tools and infrastructure its developers will use for managing vendor handoffs and handbacks of localized string resources?!?!?!?
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he sort of looks like steve perry
Glad I'm not the only one that saw it.
NOW ANNOUNCE A NEW FUCKING FLAGSHIP PHONE
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I can already picture the telegraphed "perfect 10" references in reviews.
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I'm still on Vista SP2 :goty2
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I can already picture the telegraphed "perfect 10" references in reviews.
#osgate
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I'm still on Vista SP2 :goty2
#TheStruggleIsReal
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No announcement of what tools and infrastructure its developers will use for managing vendor handoffs and handbacks of localized string resources?!?!?!?
dude if you want to know about the localized resource workflow I WORK DOWNSTAIRS :fbm
ALSO the concept of a single monolithic "handoff" and "handback" process is archaic in this era of continuous agile localization :heh
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Welcome back, MCD.
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One of you MS guys mention to the higher-ups that a swype-style keyboard for smaller tablets would be nice
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One of you MS guys mention to the higher-ups that a swype-style keyboard for smaller tablets would be nice
I thought that was included in the last major update.
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That was for windows phone
There are a lot of 7 and 8 inch windows tablets coming out this year, so it'd be pretty useful
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nvm
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Xbox One, Windows 10.
Why can't Microsoft count?
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GOD THAT GUYS HAIR
(http://i.imgur.com/qE2zBIJ.jpg)
Enterprise vs. Consumer edition.
(http://i.imgur.com/aIUHRvj.gif)
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GOD THAT GUYS HAIR
for a moment i could have sworn i could see his eyebrows through his hair
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That was for windows phone
There are a lot of 7 and 8 inch windows tablets coming out this year, so it'd be pretty useful
oh ok. i thought that got pushed to tablets as well for some reason
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GOD THAT GUYS HAIR
for a moment i could have sworn i could see his eyebrows through his hair
Dude is out of an anime.
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What? Where's 9
What would the Germans call it?
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Windows Nein
edit: I think that was the joke :(
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I remember when getting a new Windows was all about the new DirectX version.
Who even cares now? What is left for OS development except being stable, user-friendly and not sucking balls?
It is the same with Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Shit is the same old same old.
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he sort of looks like steve perry
Well, he /is/ livin’ in a lonely world.
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I remember when getting a new Windows was all about the new DirectX version.
Who even cares now? What is left for OS development except being stable, user-friendly and not sucking balls?
It is the same with Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Shit is the same old same old.
bull.fucking.shit on Excel. Each new version of Excel brings more flexibility formulas. It's like goddamn Christmas. :bow Nested If Statements :bow2
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It seems at long last Linux has better looking desktop environments than Windows 10.
:gurl No.
Metro may be bad, but Linux GUI's have been horrible until Gnome 3 and that was basically a near straight-up ape of Aqua/OS X's.
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Welcome back, MCD.
Was always here. just forgot my password while I was away from my home.
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The new KDE looks pretty spiffy. :leon
Welcome back, MCD.
Was always here. just forgot my password while I was away from my home.
How do you not have a password manager, or at the very least an encrypted txt file on a server somewhere. :beli
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I have last pass but was too lazy to login and check it up.
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Installed as a virtual. Yep, it's windows.
Tinkering
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Windows 10 (v6.4.9841)
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It was going to be 9 before they hired me, but thanks to the productivity increases the tools I am building will bring we're on track to achieve an unprecedented gain of 1.9 windowses this cycle.
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I have last pass but was too lazy to login and check it up.
:beli
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I was bored so I decided to try out the technical preview build.
A few thoughts.
1.) It's good they aren't charging for this because nothing on the face of it is worth a big money upgrade. A lot of features are still missing but I read up on them and none of them seem like something that would make me shell out money for it.
2.) That being said its a nice upgrade from shitty windows 8 and that awful metro interface stuff. This feels like the natural upgrade from 7 that most sane people would have expected instead of what we got.
3.) Most of my programs still seem to working except for my anti-virus program and my audio settings which have reverted from surround to stereo which I will try to figure out.
So yeah. It's kind of like addition by subtraction by removing the tablet stuff or at least making it function like normal desktop apps. And it has a functional start menu now. Which is how it should have always been.
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Notifications to "reserve" your free update to Windows 10 just went out today.
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Sweet, I didn't even notice the little window icon in my toolbar until I read your post.
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My favorite part is how the icon doesn't go away.
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My favorite part is how the icon doesn't go away.
Update KB3035583 is responsible, so it should go away if you un-install that.