“Microsoft on Tuesday lifted the veil on the next version of Windows: Windows 10,” Nancy Blair reports for USA Today. “It represents the first step in a whole new generation of Windows, said Microsoft executive Terry Myerson. The company said it will focus on one Windows product family across devices. Its corporate users will find Windows 10 “familiar, compatible and productive,” Myerson said.”
“Yes, the company is skipping the ‘Windows 9’ moniker. Why skip ‘9?'” Blair reports. “‘When you see the product in its fullness I think you will agree with us that it is a more appropriate name,’ Myerson said.”
“Ahead of the event, researcher Forrester said the pressure is on for Microsoft to address the needs of its business customers given the sluggish adoption of Windows 8. ‘Only about 1 in 5 organizations is offering Windows 8 PCs to employees right now,’ Forrester analyst David Johnson said in a note,” Blair reports. “It left many consumers frustrated over the disappearance of the familiar Start button and desktop.”
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MacDailyNews Take:
They named it “10,” because even-numbered Windows versions suck even more than those with odd numbers and because Windows is an upside-down and backwards knockoff of Apple’s Mac, so Redmond’s merchants of dreck figured they might as well blatantly knock off Apple’s operating system name, too.
Windows 10. So great that, for its unveiling, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella had to be in Asia on a business trip.
Good luck selling your warmed-over antiques, Rinkydinksoft. You’re gonna need it.
I have looked through Google News for most of the Tuesday afternoon articles about Windows 10. Not a single one asks the relevant questions about the storage requirements and battery life implications of having one Windows for all devices. Clearly, one already has to be in love with Windows to accept their ridiculous claims.
Here is the demonstration of Windows 10. Warning: Do not watch this while working with heavy machinery. I will not be responsible for people falling asleep.
“On the plane down here yesterday the WiFi was terrible. It drove our whole team bananas.” <-So that's why you named it Windows 10. Now I get it.
OMF: The guy said Windows Nen is going to run on ‘The Internet Of Things’. Not at my house. We’ve already seen what Windows XP Embedded has done to the retail industry: FSCKed millions of customers by allowing their card data to be stolen and sold online by way of the POS POS devices it runs at the likes of Target, Neiman Marcus, Home Depot, ad nauseam…
Yeah right. Let’s put more Windows into our devices and herald in the OLD future. Brain Missing
“So if we switch to the demo machine the first thing you hopefully will look at this and conclude, say to yourself, ‘looks pretty familiar!'” <-YEAH! It's the Dock from OS X! I use that every day!
GAWD Microsoft is stupid.
Stupid yes! Why not just name it “Windows Stupid”! Only three versions to choose from.
Windows Basic Stupid
Windows Professional Stupid
Windows Super Stupid Edition
HAHAHAHA! This seriously has to be the most bizarro stupid marketing move EVER for Microsoft, inviting laughter.
I love the cameras coming up at 0:30 expecting a slide with his numbers………….oh……………wait…………not……….happening…….put the cameras down…… sznszzzzzzzz
1. Apps in Windows – Mac apps have always been in windows.
2. Multiple Desktops – Mac has had this for years, Linux for years before that.
3. Better Snap Feature – Okay, I kind of like this feature, wish I had it on the Mac.
4. Task Button View – Mac AND Windows have had this for years… Windows just finally made a button for it. Cntl Tab anyone?
5. Return of the Start Menu? Seriously? They took away a feature now brag about bringing it back?
OS X envy
Microosoft’s OS X envy was made evident by their naming of ‘Windows XP‘. The letters ‘XP’ didn’t mean anything. But they had an ‘X’, just like Apple’s OS X. (o_O)
Slow Brain Dead At Play
Turn XP sideways & it is an emoticon on somebody with eyes tightly shut & sticking out their tongue…
hahaha!
Doesn’t it get cold standing in Apple’s OSX shadow?
call it Window Pain
it’s catchy and appropriate
COULD THIS… Illustrate more beautifully the brain damage that is Microsoft?
Q: Why no Windows 9?
A: Because 7 8 9!
(old kid’s joke, me being the old kid).
Did anyone see a rounding error anywhere?
They have wanted to name their product 10 or X since stave Jobs had changed the name of Apple’s Mac OS to Mac OS X. Soon we will have windows X.
So…. going with the odd/evens (where the odd numbers worked and the even numbers failed.) They skipped a potentially working Windows9??
That means even Microsoft knows that Windows10 will fail….