Yep!!
Windows 10 Build News ... PING!
Thanks to NeverEVERKerry for the heads up!
Posted on 04/29/2015 1:54:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yep!!
Windows 10 Build News ... PING!
Thanks to NeverEVERKerry for the heads up!
Please remove me from this ping list.
Actually, in octal they would have gone from 7 to 10.
The existence of Windows "8" shows they version in nonal.
:-)
Okay, done.
> I still prefer to use the mouse and the bigger screen for development and office work.
What if you could hook up your mouse and big monitor to your phone?
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8513519/microsoft-windows-10-continuum-for-phones/in/8280366
If you code, you understand why this was done. If you're not a coder, it's not something I can explain in less than 250 words.
The best keyboard I have ever used is the Microsoft "Natural" ergonomic keyboard. It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you are comfortable with it, you will never willingly use anything else.
The only reason I even keep it around, is that I can't use ANY of my preferred hypervisor kits in Windows 7/8+:
Hyper-V requires an AMD64 processor, hardware X-D support, Intel VT-x/AMD-V (hardware virtualisation), and address-translation support.
VMWare requires an AMD64 processor, or an IA-32 processor with the features described above. You don't even need any of those features in AMD64 mode! (X-D support is included in all AMD64 chips as a standard feature)
The legacy Connectix products do not even work in Windows 7+.
It was either that, or dropping down to Windows 2000...
No, it just proves that Windows 8 really was a mistake.
RE: What if you could hook up your mouse and big monitor to your phone?
Hey, if I can have SQL Server, Powershell and Visual Studio all running on the phone, I might want to try it.
*mutters to self: not......enough...cpu....capacity....incompatible isa....ia32.........amd64............arm*
Office as a platform sounds potentially interesting. Also potentially highly annoying. That’s about as close to awesome as I see on the list.
As a consumer, I wan them to do well so we have more competition against the behemoths Apple and Google. When Microsoft was the 600 pound gorilla, I wanted Apple and Google to weaken it.
I bet there is a huge market out there for one device with between a 5-7” screen that is powerful pad, computer, has multiple USB devices, can be used as a phone, yet can be plugged into a bigger screen, and guess what, you can tell time on it. I love Apple products, but I am not amused in the way the purposely force you to buy a million gadgets instead of just one or two:
You want a light computer? Here’s the MacBook Air with a huge price tab. Oh, you also like a nice screen? Sorry, you’ll have to also buy the MacBook. You really like apps but you like them on a bigger screen? You’ll have to also buy the iPad. Oh, I see: you want to be able to save stuff from the internet. Sorry, the iPad doesn’t have a USB port. You’ll have to buy a computer for that. You want superportability? here’s the Apple Watch. Oh, by the way, you will need a new iPhone to make it work well.
They are acting almost as bad as Microsoft in its heyday (almost as bad. Microsoft was the worst).
Yeah, the big push is to make online courses available on mobile devices like phones. Like you, if my students can’t run VS and SQL Server then it is pretty useless to try to update those types of courses to run on smartphones.
Editing and rendering 4K video on a phone might be a bit tough on them.
This will, of course, require new Windows Phone devices.
Of course.
I guess I’m a PC Luddite - I was perfectly happy using XP. I still like to play some old games that won’t run under Win 7 - fortunately I found a website that sells them altered to do so. Win 7 is fine other than that, stable and not too annoying once you disable the fancy graphic effects - so I see no need to go to 10 (though if it’s free as rumored I guess I will). However the new features listed here are mostly of little use to me, just more memory hogging.
It's Microsoft, hence my P.S.
Ah, I misinterpreted your saying it was “not a mistake” as referring to Microsoft, not your own comment. Got it now :)
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