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Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
they sorta tried that with Win7 by ripping out some old cruft and building (lovely) virtualization into the OS for compatibility purposes

didn't work

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Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

duTrieux. posted:

then they can just do a "zero hour" and give it another shot
the point of my post seems to have missed you

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Sham bam bamina! posted:

the point of my post seems to have missed you

then they can just do a flashpoint thingy where they bring back all of the old poo poo

rubber cat
Jul 1, 2002

univbee posted:

actually 9 is unlucky in japan, so maybe?

also wtf there's a kinect in the bottom right



what is the thing on the left

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

Joe 30330
Dec 20, 2007

"We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.

streetlamp
May 7, 2007

Danny likes his party hat
He does not like his banana hat
local news

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

rubber cat posted:

what is the thing on the left
a pair of potatoes

Korean Boomhauer
Sep 4, 2008
can i change the start orb to a potato in WinX?

taco_fox
Dec 14, 2005

someone give me a reason why multiple desktops are so great

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



taco_fox posted:

someone give me a reason why multiple desktops are so great

They aren't. They're loving awful and annoying to keep track of when you could just use multiple monitors.

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

the next version will be 10.9 mavericks

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

you know there's going to be a 10.1 and maybe 10.2, 10.3

born on a buy you
Aug 14, 2005

Odd Fullback
Bird Gang
Sack Them All

triple sulk posted:

They aren't. They're loving awful and annoying to keep track of when you could just use multiple monitors.

is there any topic you're not an absolute moron about?

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

Last Chance posted:

you know there's going to be a 10.1 and maybe 10.2, 10.3

nope straight to 10.2, then 10.4. only even numbers now

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

univbee posted:

actually 9 is unlucky in japan, so maybe?

also wtf there's a kinect in the bottom right



windows 10, for all 9 of these devices

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

taco_fox posted:

someone give me a reason why multiple desktops are so great

keep different tasks on different desktops, with all the windows that go with it. makes for a very clean context shift from one task to another.

raruler
Oct 5, 2003

“Here lies a toppled god —
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”
who knew 20 years worth of baggage was going to cause you problems

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

um there's no surface in that pic. rip.

taco_fox
Dec 14, 2005

The Management posted:

keep different tasks on different desktops, with all the windows that go with it. makes for a very clean context shift from one task to another.

sounds like a spergy edge case to me

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



PleasureKevin posted:

windows 10, for all 9 of these devices

Korean Boomhauer
Sep 4, 2008

PleasureKevin posted:

windows 10, for all 9 of these devices

i think that weird mishmash of poo poo on the left is a device but i cant tell what it is

EightFlyingCars
Jun 30, 2008


Korean Boomhauer posted:

i think that weird mishmash of poo poo on the left is a device but i cant tell what it is

some kinda raspberry pi thingie maybe

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

oh and i guess that giant wall clock that saw half past 9 also counts

and the xbox one is getting windows 10 too?

FamDav
Mar 29, 2008
i dont ever use multiple desktops but i love full screen applications and thank blessed stebe for giving me them before loosening his mortal coil and flying off to that big white box in the sky

Korean Boomhauer
Sep 4, 2008

EightFlyingCars posted:

some kinda raspberry pi thingie maybe

oh this fucken thing



https://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/Windows-Developer-Program-for-IoT

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

taco_fox posted:

sounds like a spergy edge case to me

ah yes, so spergy that steve jobs added the feature to macintosh operating system ten version ten point five codename leopard, then updated it again in macintosh operating system ten version ten point seven codename lion

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass
it's actually an arduino yun (without the sticker on its shielding), which runs linux on a MIPS processor so it's extra lol since someone in marketing screwed up

see:


and the yun:


the board itself was actually designed linino and originally called the doghunter:


so yeah, good luck getting windows 10 to run on that 400mhz MIPS cpu with 64 megabytes of memory and 16 megabytes of storage

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

ok this developer preview is for people that know:

DLL is not the new OMG

BIOS is not a bio fuel

PXE Boots != a band of intimidating females

nothing about identifying computer hardware

pseudopresence
Mar 3, 2005

I want to get online...
I need a computer!
PXE Boot would be a great name for a girl band though??!

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

Fabricated posted:

seriously why the gently caress does microsoft never just produce a whole set of new icons for each release when thats probably the cheapest thing to do of all the stupid poo poo that needs fixed

real talk icons are really hard to make and windows probably has several thousand in the queue

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


Whizbat! posted:

Now is the Windows of my discontent.

lol

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

qirex posted:

real talk icons are really hard to make and windows probably has several thousand in the queue

just hire an xda developer

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


carry on then posted:

the virtual desktops and not expose actually seem kind of nice but knowing microsoft will not work for anything that ships with the os

Korean Boomhauer
Sep 4, 2008

PleasureKevin posted:

just hire an xda developer

*puts potleaf behind existing icons*

Hugh G. Rectum
Mar 1, 2011

new windows console has exciting features like text wrapping, copy/paste that works, and ~*transparency*~

lol

raruler
Oct 5, 2003

“Here lies a toppled god —
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”

Sudo Echo posted:

new windows console has exciting features like text wrapping, copy/paste that works, and ~*transparency*~

lol

and they consider these features to be "experimental"

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge

Sudo Echo posted:

new windows console has exciting features like text wrapping, copy/paste that works, and ~*transparency*~

lol
"gently caress it. we're just stealing bottom of the barrel type ideas from ubuntu"

suspicious donkey!
Jun 26, 2013
why do they call the ninth windows windows 10?

because windows 7 windows 8 windows 9 :xd:

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PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

who's on 8?

no, no, who's on 7

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