WTF happened to Windows 95?
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Because I wasn't verbatim? Yep, good call.
Thanks Captain PedanticDickweedMan, you've saved the day once again![/s]
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I was actually expecting it to be called "Windows One". It's not like the existence of a previously existing Windows 1.0 really prevents that, and no-one's reading "Windows 10" as "Windows One-Oh", so it doesn't tie anything together.
They should just go back to using years.
Nah, they should still have called it Windows One, but in homage to Windows 1.0, they could have called the new one, Windows One Two.
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I think it should be spelled Windows Luxury Yacht but pronounced Windows Throatwobbler Mangrove.
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I think it should be Windows Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow and come in European and African (Non-Migratory) Editions.
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Does the European edition of Windows Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow ship without Internet Explorer?
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You know, I always was a bit disappointed by that bit. What about the American Cliff swallow? Huh?! What about them!?! What if Tim had been referring to the American Cliff swallow
Maybe MS could rectify that oversight by including an American Cliff edition as well.
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Having a prank and PREDICTING THE FUTURE = priceless.
Except The Onion did it first, with Fuck Everything, We're Doing 5 Blades.
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My metro start screen
You don't need any of the cruft. Just delete it all and get StartIsBack or ClassicShell. Other than a few niggles, you won't even notice it's there.
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I don't even know what my Metro screen looks like. I do the whole "Press Windows-key then type" thing that the old Vista/7-style Start Menu did which Metro continues to do.
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While ChromeOS is at Version 37, Android is just at Version 4.4.
Which, btw, is API Level 19.
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they should still have called it Windows One
Not that I'm any fan of their Fubar One naming shtick, but the likelihood that anyone would confuse Windows One with the almost 30 year-old Windows 1.0 that hardly anybody has even seen, much less used, is infinitesimal.
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ME introduced System Restore. On a FAT32 system. Failing to disable it would make your computer the crashiest piece of crap ever.
Nonsense. Shovelware was the reason Me had a reputation for sucking.
I was in the Me beta. They gave us all a copy of it. I bought an HP that was loaded down with shovelware so bad HTTPS didn't work. Yes, that's right: you try to go to an https site in any browser, it just spun the throbber forever. Plus all the other things people usually gripe about. Eventually I got sick of it and decided to try a clean install from my MS-provided CD. And you know what? All the problems went away.
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Especially when compared to the chances of the same thing happening with the Xbox 1/Xbox One. Heck, I doubt you can install Windows 1 easily on a modern computer.
Maybe it was some kind of legal issue? Like Windows 1 was already a registered trademark and Windows One was too similar. But Apple called the iPad 3 "iPad" and they didn't seem to have a problem with it...
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It's surprising Microsoft still even ships it.
Well, no. To this day, people still write batch files because that's what they know, and MS is (generally) all about back-compat.
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Oh by the way: the previews are already out: ISOs, Upgrade Installer.
I'd tell you all not to download them at the same time or you'll overload the servers, but Microsoft owns a multi-billion-dollar cloud and CDN so it should be OK (their fault for not using torrents).
Haven't tried them, it says you have to register for a "Windows Insider Program" but it let me download things without doing anything. Might require linking to an account to run.
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Maybe it was some kind of legal issue? Like Windows 1 was already a registered trademark and Windows One was too similar.
If that were true, it would be Microsoft's own trademark. There's no problem with reusing your own trademark for a new product.
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Heck, I doubt you can install Windows 1 easily on a modern computer.
That sounds like an interesting challenge I do not want to face but want to see other people try.
We should have a contest of "What is the most recent (and maybe even most stupid) technologic piece that you can run with Windows 1?"I can't wait for people to try to hack into a microwave just to install Win 1 and then post a screenshot of it :like: (← placeholder for a smiley with hearts as eyes)
Filed Under: Would anybody participate in this?
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There's no problem with reusing your own trademark for a new product.
Oh, you never know, copyright and trademark laws can be fucking nuts in some aspects.
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Did they ever give you that pedant badge?
Pendantry. It's called pendantry.
[I already linked to Homer Simpson doing the "it's called noocyoolar" bit. Look it up yourself.
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Some of us are just lazy fucks.
No, refusing to flag properly-pendantic posts is actually sadism, not laziness.
This is where, if I were Arantor, I'd ask someone to flag the post, because I'd be shamelessly whoring for the badge[1]. Instead, I'm just going to tell you people you need to put aside your sadistic tendencies and do the right thing and flag this post.
[1] I mean that in the good way, dude.
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What good is a spearhead for knitting?
that may qualify for a whoosh. Just in case, I'll flag it.
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I already linked to Homer Simpson doing the "it's called noocyoolar" bit. Look it up yourself.
Having grown up in a town that relied on the nuclear industry, I will not abide that pronunciation, even in the name of humor. It's nü-klē-ər, damn it!
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I'm afraid I have no choice but to whoooosh-flag you.
I'll see if I can add a note suggesting pendantry nomination as well.
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I think insufficient focus has been given to this, surely the best indicator that Windows 10 will be a real clusterfuck.
I heard that and merely assumed it was a lie.
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No, pedantry would, at an absolute minimum, require the use of IPA for the pronunciation.
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That topic now has the honor of being the first I have ever muted.
The first one is the hardest.
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I'm afraid I have no choice but to whoooosh-flag you.
Did you miss this part?
I will not abide that pronunciation, even in the name of humor.
Translation: I recognized the attempted humor, but refused to let it stand.
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@Intercourse said:
I want a Start button. I am going to give it a few days but I may nuke this POS and go back to 7, where grumpy old codgers like me belong.
Start removing stuff from the start screen, and rearranging things so the things you actually do are on the left. Also, pin the most common things you do to the desktop and/or taskbar. You'll find it's not nearly so bad as you think.
I hated it at first too, until I discovered you can customize it far more than you can customize the start menu.
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Not that I'm any fan of their Fubar One naming shtick, but the likelihood that anyone would confuse Windows One with the almost 30 year-old Windows 1.0 that hardly anybody has even seen, much less used, is infinitesimal.
Whooooosh, goddamnit!
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No, pedantry would, at an absolute minimum, require the use of IPA for the pronunciation.
I don't know that I disagree. I called out I was making a joke and he was all "I don't care, it's still wrong." If that isn't spiritual pendantry I don't know what it is.
BTW you spelled pendantry wrong.
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Did you miss this part?
Not at all. I was...uh...using a slightly different definition.
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No, refusing to flag properly-pendantic posts is actually sadism, not laziness.
This is where, if I were Arantor, I'd ask someone to flag the post, because I'd be shamelessly whoring for the badge[1]. Instead, I'm just going to tell you people you need to put aside your sadistic tendencies and do the right thing and flag this post.
[1] I mean that in the good way, dude.
If I can't shamelessly whore myself out for the badge on my birthday, I can't do it any other time. But on the flip side, I'll not be doing it any other time, just like I haven't before today ;)
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The way to go around that is clicking the "I don't want to use an MS-account" when you are creating your account. I know it's not easy to find (I overlooked it, too, the first time I installed it) but it's there and it never asks you again ever (unless you need it for some kind of store-procedure.
But it isn't. Not on an 8.1 Enterprise install anyway. You have to click on "Make new account" (or whatever it is called) and then in very low contrast text it says to use a local account instead and does not even look clickable. It is very counter intuitive. If it were on the main screen, out in the open, where it asks you to login, I would not have said a thing...because that would have made sense.
I am just trying to make @Intercourse time with Windows a bit easier while simultaniously being a little bit of a jerk.
You do it in a much more friendly way than @blakeyrat does. He just seems like a bellend.
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Well, no. To this day, people still write batch files because that's what they know, and MS is (generally) all about back-compat.
You never, ever, ever, fucking ever, under any circumstances, change the API. Fucking ever. If any software ends up having a vestigial organ, you fucking keep it. Because @blakeyrat fucking says so.
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@Intercourse said:
You never, ever, ever, fucking ever, under any circumstances, change the API. Fucking ever. If any software ends up having a vestigial organ, you fucking keep it. Because @blakeyrat fucking says so.
Well, that's not entirely wrong. Here's how I envision it:
When you discover that a particular API needs to be updated, you make sure you broadcast it like mad. You put the new version along-side the old one. Flag the old one as obsolete. And make sure to tell the world. Then, schedule a task a few months, or maybe a year down the road, to rip that sucker out. Then tell everyone what the schedule is. That way you don't break stuff outright for people hooking into the API. You give them time to update. You make sure that they know that there is a deadline. And, most of all, you make sure to stick to that deadline. You rip that mofo out. You'll probably get some whining, and complaining, but you can just point back to your numerous posts and say, "We gave plenty of warning."
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I would agree, but @blakeyrat says that we are wrong. And @blakeyrat has never been wrong. If you do not believe me, just ask him.
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What if I don't believe @blakeyrat?
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You do not question the @blakeyrat, the @blakeyrat questions you.
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I question who I want!
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@blakeyrat will NOT be pleased.
#1, you are questioning him.
#2, you did not mention his name.
#3, this fucking parser sucks.
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I beg the forgiveness of the mighty @blakeyrat for not mentioning his name in my previous post.
I will never beg forgiveness for questioning!
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You're whoosh happy, aren't you?
What? I wanna help someone get the badge! It's all part of the gamification of whatever @blakeyrat's been blithering about.
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An alternative explanation...
http://i.imgur.com/p7eQQK3.pngI don't know which one would be worse.
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@Intercourse said:
vestigial organ
Batch files are hardly a vestigial organ.
I guess you approve of Apple's periodic "Fuck you, we're switching architectures and invalidating every single application you have" moves.
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You could obviate that with "Windows 9". JIC Discurse Discurses that, there's two spaces.
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Yeah, there's a lot of possible workarounds, so it's unlikely to be the actual reason. Still funny though.
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Yeah, there's a lot of possible workarounds, so it's unlikely to be the actual reason. Still funny though.
Well, a more serious answer if it were that issue is "use an AppCompat shim."
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But how do you know which applications will interpret the results correctly and which won't? A big-ass blacklist? Heuristics? Or hope the user knows how to set compatibility mode?