Windows 10 and P99

[Swish]

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

Question: what is a single thing besides the replaceable start menu that makes windows 8 unpleasant

answer: the start menu.


seriously, its one tiny feature that is replaced with a tiny install and a click. yet everyone talks about windows 8 like its a plague. yeah they fucked up on the start menu and made it look like apps, but that doesn't mean the whole OS is junk.... just annoys me how hard people jump on the bandwagon. replace the start menu and all you have is a better version of 7, hands down.

huge marketing fail though, wasn't it?

[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)

[kined]

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

huge marketing fail though, wasn't it?

oh no doubt and ill never debate that, that start menu is horrible and it destroyed its reputation, but people trashing it like a horrible operating system is just a complete circle jerk, especially when they claim to know anything about tech but have clearly ignored every technical aspect of the OS because of its start menu style. (i hear it all the time in IT).

i really have no reason to defend microsoft or anything, just cannot stand the bandwagoning. if you want to say the operating system is garbage though, someone has to give me a reason or two thats not so ridiculously easy and quick to fix, and is really only relevant to style.

[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...

[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.

[webrunner5]

Been a Beat tester since the start. Zero problems with P1999, Live, Sleeper. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Varren]

What i want to know is whether w10 will further bog down my already sluggish (on ram mostly) system

[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.