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windows preview status: prepping for release my body is ready satya
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they named the ninth windows windows 10
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Oct 1, 2014 08:30
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qirex posted:real talk icons are really hard to make and windows probably has several thousand in the queue well why don't they spend 2.5 billion to hire a bunch of artists and designers to unify them?
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Oct 1, 2014 08:35
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 fix eta 2015
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Oct 1, 2014 09:30
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what version of windows is this actually if you forget the naming schemes
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Oct 1, 2014 09:38
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i miss the old windows flag logo BRING IT BACK!!!! the new logo is boring 😴
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Oct 1, 2014 10:50
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qirex posted:real talk icons are really hard to make and windows probably has several thousand in the queue also even if they do do this it won't fix the underlying problem, which is that their ui needs to look good regardless of a mix of horrible icon styles, whether they're windows' own or they're produced by third parties for prior windows versions this is a difficult, but not impossible task, at which they've abjectly failed
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Oct 1, 2014 11:21
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Fib posted:PXE Boot would be a great name for a girl band though??! yes
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Oct 1, 2014 11:22
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ill start the band's wikipedia
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Oct 1, 2014 11:29
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theadder posted:
maybe in 10 years the windows shell will have caught up with the state of current linux shells i, on my linux desktop, can execute arbitrary code on a linux web server using bash. can u do that with windows computers and windows web servers
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Oct 1, 2014 11:53
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wait yeah that was activex, i think. man, those were the days.
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Oct 1, 2014 11:54
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yes, but bash has had that feature longer than even activex existed so way to play catchup again ms lol
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Oct 1, 2014 14:56
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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 they know it doesn't really matter since software makers won't bring their icons in line with microsoft's grand new ui vision anyway, so they're halfassing it cause they know it'll look like poo poo with clashing icon styles no matter what
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Oct 1, 2014 15:33
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born on a buy you posted:is there any topic you're not an absolute moron about? 
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Oct 1, 2014 16:09
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PleasureKevin posted:who's on 8? what? whats on xp
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Oct 1, 2014 17:33
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Main Paineframe posted:they know it doesn't really matter since software makers won't bring their icons in line with microsoft's grand new ui vision anyway, so they're halfassing it cause they know it'll look like poo poo with clashing icon styles no matter what don't they have a shitton of v dashes to do these types of things or are they still on 6 months leave?
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Oct 1, 2014 17:37
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graph posted:what? how's on chromeos
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Oct 1, 2014 18:27
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duTrieux. posted:then they can just do a flashpoint thingy where they bring back all of the old poo poo so there's no punching that changes reality? 
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Oct 1, 2014 18:30
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:how's on chromeos i like how
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Oct 1, 2014 18:38
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who made the joke about old rear end enterprise programs checking for 'windows 9*'? http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x
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Oct 1, 2014 18:56
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the talent deficit posted:who made the joke about old rear end enterprise programs checking for 'windows 9*'? i'm going to need confirmation from somewhere but that makes too much sense
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Oct 1, 2014 19:08
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the talent deficit posted:who made the joke about old rear end enterprise programs checking for 'windows 9*'? someone repost the sim city story tia
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Oct 1, 2014 19:11
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Oct 1, 2014 19:13
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Miley Virus posted:someone repost the sim city story tia which was this
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Oct 1, 2014 19:14
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Blackula69 posted:which was this http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html quote:Windows 95? No problem. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95. Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here's the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn't working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn't free memory right away. That's the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.
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Oct 1, 2014 19:16
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that is the exact kind of enabling behavior that turns your platform into a swamp of diarrhea and piss
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Oct 1, 2014 19:21
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oh right, that old thing. thought they meant about the new game
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Oct 1, 2014 19:22
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the talent deficit posted:who made the joke about old rear end enterprise programs checking for 'windows 9*'? GetVersion and GetVersionEx return major and minor versions, but no API returns an actual product name string as far as I'm aware. Also the internal version numbers have nothing to with the marketing "version number" (Vista is 6.0, Seven is 6.1). Consider what a ballache this would be with internationalisation thrown in the mix, for instance. so yeah just gonna file this one under Re: RE: RE: Fwd: FWD: FWD: Re: Fwd: FWD: FWD: FWD: LOL!!
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Oct 1, 2014 19:25
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fleshweasel posted:a swamp of diarrhea and piss
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Oct 1, 2014 19:25
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Mr Dog posted:GetVersion and GetVersionEx return major and minor versions, but no API returns an actual product name string as far as I'm aware. Also the internal version numbers have nothing to with the marketing "version number" (Vista is 6.0, Seven is 6.1). Consider what a ballache this would be with internationalisation thrown in the mix, for instance. sadly, this
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Oct 1, 2014 19:30
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fleshweasel posted:that is the exact kind of enabling behavior that turns your platform into a swamp of diarrhea and piss which is hilarious because he is giving that as an example of why windows is great, also he chastises processor companies for having the temerity to create architectures other than x86 which is lol
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Oct 1, 2014 19:31
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I can't believe the amount of drop shadow in win10
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Oct 1, 2014 19:44
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they should have broke compatibility right there, nobody was going to switch to os/2 or system 7 anyways
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Oct 1, 2014 19:46
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:I can't believe the amount of drop shadow in win10
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Oct 1, 2014 19:47
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it's also funny how he argues that to be a successful platform you need to run software for whatever is the most popular platform, a strategy which pretty much tanked os/2
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Oct 1, 2014 19:48
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carry on then posted:a strategy which pretty much tanked os/2 i would like to know more, i remember os/2 tv ads but never used the actual os and by the time i became competent enough at computers, os/2 was long gone
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Oct 1, 2014 20:00
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univbee posted:i would like to know more, i remember os/2 tv ads but never used the actual os and by the time i became competent enough at computers, os/2 was long gone http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/half-an-operating-system-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-os2/ quote:OS/2 had the best DOS virtual machine ever seen at the time. It was so good that you could easily run DOS games fullscreen while multitasking in the background, and many games (like Wing Commander) even worked in a 320x200 window. OS/2’s DOS box was so good that you could run an entire copy of Windows inside it, and thanks to IBM’s separation agreement with Microsoft, each copy of OS/2 came bundled with something IBM called “Win-OS2.” It was essentially a free copy of Windows that ran either full-screen or windowed. If you had enough RAM, you could run each Windows app in a completely separate virtual machine running its own copy of Windows, so a single app crash wouldn’t take down any of the others. duTrieux. fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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Oct 1, 2014 20:10
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e: yeah that off the top of my head, the problem was partly that after the ibm pc was cloned all to hell, ibm wanted to make their own locked in platform in the ps/2, so they took os/2, which had until that point been a collaboration between microsoft and ibm, and shut ms out completely so they could restrict os/2 to the ps/2 line. however, in order to speed adoption, they left in the compatibility layer that allowed os/2 to run windows 3.1 programs. they thought that everyone would buy a ps/2 to get the best of both os/2 and windows software, thereby encouraging more developers to make native os/2 apps. instead, developers saw that they could get both os/2 and windows users to buy their software just by making a windows version, and users saw how much more software was made for windows than os/2 and bought pcs. now os/2 is dead. it's one of the clearest lessons from computer history but so many people miss it (see: blackberry running android apps) carry on then fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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Oct 1, 2014 20:11
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Kilroy posted:get your own av, gaylord had this one before you bro, and it's way more appropriate for me.
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Oct 1, 2014 20:15
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someone doesn't want to post so here we go: windows 10 tech preview:    bing with autocomplete in the search widget you can't remove. can't disable bing either:  comparison with 8.1 on left. oh and this poo poo is also on by default on the enterprise version: 
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