Posted on 10/11/2014 8:13:59 AM PDT by daniel1212
For those interested in computing for Christ
What happened to Windows 9?
They by-passed that name and went straight to Win 10....whatever....thinking about gong to an IMac just to get away from windows....
Sadly Windows 9 followed Windows 8, and since Windows 8 couldn’t find it’s butt with both hands, both got lost.
The joke going around was that 7 8(ate) 9. Hence, Windows 10.
M4L
The desktop computer I have is only about two years old and works fine. It has Windows 7 and I suspect my next OS on this hardware will be Linux Mint. I’ve been running it in a Virtual Machine and it seems to work just fine.
10 is a welcome improvement over 8 (or 8.1).
Thanks for the review, but I’m staying with Win-7 Pro x64.
Microsoft decided to name its upcoming operating system Windows 10 and thus skip Windows 9, despite the buzz that was created in the last few months and pointing to this particular designation for Redmond’s next OS version.
The company, however, never provided a reason for its decision to skip Windows 9 and go directly to Windows 10
Evidence of Windows 8.1 Update 2 was found in some Windows 10 files, so it appears that Microsoft initially designed it to be just a new update for Windows 8.1, but in the end decided to provide it to users under a completely new name and as a stand-alone release.
. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-called-windows-10-not-windows-9
There’s also the odd fact that the name of each Windows release doesn’t actually match the real version number; for example, Windows 8.1 is actually version 6.3 of Windows. Windows 10 is version 6.4. The last time the release name actually matched the version number was Windows NT 4.0, which was released back in 1996. Windows 2000, which was called NT 5.0 during development, was actually version 5.0. Windows XP was version 5.1. Windows Vista was 6.0, Windows 7 was 6.1, Windows 8 was 6.2, and Windows 8.1 is version 6.3. (WinRT, which powers Metro, is a new and separate beast, but it still sits on top of the core Windows kernel.)
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-s-CEO-Explains-What-Happened-with-Windows-9-461421.shtml
Is this your review? If so, very well done!
I’m convinced MS skipped Windows 9 in order to be “equal” to OSX. So that the masses won’t think the Mac more advanced because of its higher release number
Actually, I see hardy any improvement, and far more things that could be improved. Classic Shell is still a better Start Menu. But thank God for all they can do. Imagine it was a government project all the way thru.
As most should i think unless a cheap cheap upgrade is offered, as the support life will be longer.
Edit. WTP did installed the modem. The problem must be with Phone Tray Free (discontinued).
Very good. Must have been the bytes due under a Fat32 system.
Not very profession, but thank God if it helps.
I’m convinced MS skipped Windows 9 in order to be “equal” to OSX. So that the masses won’t think the Mac more advanced because of its higher release number
Plausible. And where would be without competition?
Agreed. I have purchased my last Windows machine. My wife loves her recently acquired MacBook Air. I am ancient and started with Win 1.0 after DOS. We also currently have running Win 7, 8 & 8.1 machines. Classic Shell makes the Win 8 machines bearable.
I was working for HP when the first desktop came out running native DOS.
Bill Gates was one of my clients at the time and I must say his head and company have self destructed as he became richer and the company grew.
I also became a CIO for a large bank and later a large group of hospitals and have run HP Unix servers connected via fibre optics to all hospital campuses. UNIX was nice, but not foe everyone.
My PC running WIN 8.1 works fine. I am just tired of Microsoft’s upgrade policies, amount of CPU overhead, and their lack of support.
I must also mention I am part of their consumer technical advisory group and have filled out several surveys, etc. with them - only to have my advice ignored as have others who have the same relationship with them.
No one in industry, manufacturing, government, military, business, or the enterprise will care one whit about Windows 10 unless it’s a more productive operating system for the vast majority of their PC users. That really will be the sole metric of the success of Windows 10: is it compatible with the hundreds of millions of current PC applications and their users and is it substantially BETTER than Windows 7.
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