A lot of people do. XP was the main OS of many companies and banks, so the decision likely didn't go down well with quite a few professionals within business and industry.
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Windows 10 changes that. You get the start menu, and while there are live tiles in the start menu, you can remove them. Everything this time around feels a lot more intuitive, and 10 is snappy as hell. My 5 year old machine runs like it was built yesterday. If the preview continues on this course, Windows 10 looks great, and I think it will do very well.
That's all I'm asking for!
That's how I feel too. It feels alien. I'm using the shell menu in Windows 8 tbh. So I'll know where everything is at.
Exactly. Guess they don't take those things into account. They figure everyone is rich and can afford to upgrade and/or get a new computer every few years.
Which isn't always the case for everyone. Some people live on a budget. And the computer they have has to last a long time.
To be fair, Windows XP is a 13 year old operating system.
That old? I didn't realize. I've never used XP so I didn't know it was released at the start of the new century. I assumed it was a few years younger than that. Still, a shame that Windows left dedicated, loyal XP users high and dry when the company decided it was no longer going to bother supporting the system. Getting long in the tooth or not, it's been reliable and popular.
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Speaking of footage, I made a quick demonstration video of the Windows 10 start menu and a bit of the overall layout:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB9X1Te8NJM&feature=youtu.be[/yt]
I recommend watching it in either 720p or 1080p if you want to see everything clearly.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB9X1Te8NJM&feature=youtu.be[/yt]
I recommend watching it in either 720p or 1080p if you want to see everything clearly.
Thanks. I like it.
Unfortunatly MS is a software company they want you to upgrade to the latest OS. I think part of the problem wasn't that they retired XP (in fact I think they even extended cover for it) it was more to do with what repalced it Vista. Had Vista been more like what Winodws 7 was MS might not have had as much critsim when it retired XP.
I'm just glad the company plans to support the different Windows 7 releases until about 2020. You've got a lot of people out there who don't want nor feel the need to switch to Windows 8 or the brand new 10 and as big a stick as Windows can swing they're gonna have a helluva time forcing users to upgrade without alienating a lot of their customers.
What happened to 9?
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They skipped it in order to emphasize how different Windows 10 is from Windows 8.
This is exactly what I figured right off the bat. So, so obvious. But is this something that's been officially stated?
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Hmmm. I'm not sure it says precisely that they wanted "to emphasize how different Windows 10 is from Windows 8," as if they're trying to distance the new OS from Windows 8. It says:
[quote="ZDNet]But Microsoft went instead with Windows 10 because they wanted to signify that the coming Windows release would be the last "major" Windows update. Going forward, Microsoft is planning to make regular, smaller updates to the Windows 10 codebase, rather than pushing out new major updates years apart. Windows 10 will have a common codebase across multiple screen sizes, with the UI tailored to work on those devices.[/quote]
That's both radical and ambitious.---
P.S. I just had a flashback to OS/2 Warp, cf the fastest speed in Star Trek is Warp 10.
That's both radical and ambitious.[/QUOTE]
Oh hi, MacOS X.
I'm not going to complain. Windows 10 looks a hell of a lot better and more usable for people who actually do productivity work on their PCs. It's basically just Windows 7 again. I just skipped Windows 8 because it seemed like an abomination.
And I'm fine with a new incremental update policy. It seems to work for MacOS.
I just got 8.1 working the way I want it to, with Classic Shell for my start menu "experience." No way I'm going to change now, even if 10 is better.
Ok, so what is that wallpaper? It's driving me nuts. At first I thought it was this, but obviously not. :/
Oh hi, MacOS X.
I'm not going to complain. Windows 10 looks a hell of a lot better and more usable for people who actually do productivity work on their PCs. It's basically just Windows 7 again. I just skipped Windows 8 because it seemed like an abomination.
And I'm fine with a new incremental update policy. It seems to work for MacOS.[/QUOTE]
Yes, it's true, once again Microsoft looks like they are following in the footsteps of Apple.
I believe that Steve Jobs stated that he envisioned that (Mac) OS X would have relevance for twenty years. He didn't commit Apple to maintain that brand forever. When Apple announced that Mac OS X would be the last version of the classic MacIntosh system, as I understood it what they meant was that they were severing the ties to the MacIntosh legacy. They've done that.
If ZDNet is correctly representing what Microsoft has officially announced, what Microsoft has done is effectively announce the endgame for one of their flagship products. I believe that that is radical and ambitious. It's not something that I would have advised them to do.
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