Windows 10 and P99

[khanable]

The most exciting feature, and, sadly, the biggest disappointment has been this 'Game DVR' feature. I can open the record menu in literally anything -- iTunes, Skype, Teamspeak, Chrome -- but it doesn't fucking work in EQ. The only actual game. What the fuck MS.

lol

[falkun]

I played Live EQ back on Windows Millenium Edition. -That- was a shit version of Windows. BTW Kaev, Linux runs P99 very well. Once I got OBS set up I was good to go. Still haven't looked into running P99 from a ramdisk even though I have plenty of RAM to spare.

[Varren]

Did they skip 9?

[Pringles]

Originally Posted by Varren [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Did they skip 9?

7 ate 9 (7 8 9)

[slappytwotoes]

Originally Posted by Varren [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Did they skip 9?

Serious answer, they skipped 9 because Windows 95 + 98 are collectively known as Windows 9x. They didn't want a brand new Windows 9 next to Windows 9x which was 20 years older. Imagine how many morons would have installed the wrong drivers for everything too...

[Man0warr]

Originally Posted by slappytwotoes [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Serious answer, they skipped 9 because Windows 95 + 98 are collectively known as Windows 9x. They didn't want a brand new Windows 9 next to Windows 9x which was 20 years older. Imagine how many morons would have installed the wrong drivers for everything too...

It was actually because a ton of legacy applications have code in it that starts like "if Win 9*" to catch all versions of 95 and 98, which would have fucked up in Windows 9.

[deezy]

Originally Posted by Man0warr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was actually because a ton of legacy applications have code in it that starts like "if Win 9*" to catch all versions of 95 and 98, which would have fucked up in Windows 9.

Windows 7 reported itself to software as being version 6.1. Windows 8 is 6.2, and Windows 8.1 is 6.3.

[Portasaurus]

Do the blowhards at MS understand and acknowledge the fact that everyone who uses a computer wants it to behave like a computer and not a phone, or are they all giving each other high fives, thinking they are software marketing geniuses by renaming, relabeling, and reskinning everything so it looks like a 4-year-old's toy?

Seems to me like every new version of Windows is just a way to keep people paying for training courses to learn where the developers moved everything and what it's all called now. It's getting old.

[kined]

Originally Posted by Portasaurus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do the blowhards at MS understand and acknowledge the fact that everyone who uses a computer wants it to behave like a computer and not a phone, or are they all giving each other high fives, thinking they are software marketing geniuses by renaming, relabeling, and reskinning everything so it looks like a 4-year-old's toy?

Seems to me like every new version of Windows is just a way to keep people paying for training courses to learn where the developers moved everything and what it's all called now. It's getting old.

the thing is that i suspect its ENTIRELY the marketing team pushing for all these bullshit changes. Windows 8 is excellent from a development standpoint, they added some nice features and made a lot of tools a lot nicer looking and functioning.... and if you replace the start menus convoluted bullshit? oh the same structure still exists hidden underneath the APP style bullshit and they didn't actually move much at all, just put a shitty marketing mask over it all. the microsoft marketing team is probably getting desperate and probably has a fire lit under their ass to not let Apple marketing leave them in the dust (because face it, apple can sell inferior products for more money - hands down).

recently my office was robbed and they took 2 MacBooks that were pieces of junk and over 4 years old, but left the stack of brand new windows laptops that were worth significantly more, simply because of how much better marketing apple had from doing the exact things you mention as annoying for windows to do. simple people want toys, and there are more simple people than people who care about solid technology.

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by Portasaurus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do the blowhards at MS understand and acknowledge the fact that everyone who uses a computer wants it to behave like a computer and not a phone, or are they all giving each other high fives, thinking they are software marketing geniuses by renaming, relabeling, and reskinning everything so it looks like a 4-year-old's toy?

Seems to me like every new version of Windows is just a way to keep people paying for training courses to learn where the developers moved everything and what it's all called now. It's getting old.

They probably understand it more than the dying grognards.