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Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

univbee posted:

Maybe this is their secret master plan. Early 2016 Microsoft walks out on stage and announces: Windows 7.2, which has exactly the same UI as Windows 7. Includes DirectX 12 and MUI support for all SKU's. Bam, installed on 1 billion devices.

Lmao

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Happy_Misanthrope
Aug 3, 2007

"I wanted to kill you, go to your funeral, and anyone who showed up to mourn you, I wanted to kill them too."

akadajet posted:

that doesn't look awful. what's going on here?

you're basically looking at the start menu and a desktop background, win10 really struts its stuff when you combine crazy poo poo like opening an explorer window and a modern app

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

univbee posted:

Maybe this is their secret master plan. Early 2016 Microsoft walks out on stage and announces: Windows 7.2, which has exactly the same UI as Windows 7. Includes DirectX 12 and MUI support for all SKU's. Bam, installed on 1 billion devices.
they would never do this, but they absolutely might release a version of windows with Windows 7 Mode

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

i can't wait for all the failed laptop upgrades come rollout

can we have a bingo card for vendors named in the upcoming articles

24 hours to go!

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

univbee posted:

Maybe this is their secret master plan. Early 2016 Microsoft walks out on stage and announces: Windows 7.2, which has exactly the same UI as Windows 7. Includes DirectX 12 and MUI support for all SKU's. Bam, installed on 1 billion devices.

cloud first. mobile first. desktop first.

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

the verge's shilling for ms is just embarassing

Athletic Footjob
Sep 24, 2005
Grimey Drawer
and that's why Microsoft is cool again

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

duTrieux. posted:

the verge's shilling for ms is just embarassing

at least they're getting paid for it

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


all i want is for ms to do another of those corporate vandalism things where fat people in butterfly suits and roller blades spraypaint actual city infrastructure and nobody stops them because we see it as ok because its their job

theultimo
Aug 2, 2004

An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.
Pillbug

qirex posted:

at least they're getting paid for it

I wonder what division paid these guys to shill streaming on Windows
http://www.businessinsider.com/xbox-one-to-pc-game-streaming-2015-7

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

Chris Knight posted:

cloud first. mobile first. desktop first.

Xbox First*

*what they'll the fourth xbox

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

shadow puppet of a posted:

all i want is for ms to do another of those corporate vandalism things where fat people in butterfly suits and roller blades spraypaint actual city infrastructure and nobody stops them because we see it as ok because its their job

didn't they end up having to pay for removal and cleaning?

scamtank
Feb 24, 2011

my desire to just be a FUCKING IDIOT all day long is rapidly overtaking my ability to FUNCTION

i suspect that means i'm MENTALLY ILL


Chris Knight posted:

cloud first. mobile first. desktop first.

some priorities are more first than others

scamtank
Feb 24, 2011

my desire to just be a FUCKING IDIOT all day long is rapidly overtaking my ability to FUNCTION

i suspect that means i'm MENTALLY ILL


one device good. four devices better

Happy_Misanthrope
Aug 3, 2007

"I wanted to kill you, go to your funeral, and anyone who showed up to mourn you, I wanted to kill them too."

theultimo posted:

I wonder what division paid these guys to shill streaming on Windows
http://www.businessinsider.com/xbox-one-to-pc-game-streaming-2015-7

"Windows 10 can turn any PC into an Xbox, and it's incredible*"


*Xbox required

Wiggly Wayne DDS
Sep 11, 2010



Happy_Misanthrope posted:

"Windows 10 can turn any PC into an Xbox, and it's incredible*"


*Xbox required
they're patching out the xbox requirement over the coming months

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast
so can you take a $75 dollar windows tablet and put on win 10 and make it into a portable xbox

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

"Windows 10 can turn any PC into an Xbox, and it's incredible*"


*Xbox required

theultimo
Aug 2, 2004

An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.
Pillbug
Lmao, wasn't Windows 10 made for tablets?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/27/windows_10_small_tablet_not_release_ready/

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge
a small fondleslab

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

sit back and relax while your computer is fondled repeatedly by windows 10

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Phoenixan posted:

a small fondleslab

micorsof is increasingly irrelevant to small fondleslabs

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

micorsof is increasingly irrelevant to small fondleslabs

mods rename thread

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNwnz0IIsJE

why

theultimo
Aug 2, 2004

An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.
Pillbug

That's why Microsoft is cool again.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

theultimo posted:

That's why Microsoft is cool again.

leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe

lmbao

leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe
what better way to launch an OS in 2015 than a frickin' kickin' rad laser show. epic.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

any bets on how many day 1 updates windows 10 will have? :jackbud:

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

youre an idiot for not posting the "making of the ad" video, where the fart-huffing is turned up to 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL8BBOwupcI

Wiggly Wayne DDS
Sep 11, 2010



THC posted:

youre an idiot for not posting the "making of the ad" video, where the fart-huffing is turned up to 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL8BBOwupcI
it's perfect

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
you know its kind of nice that microsoft is at least trying now

they still have no taste

leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe

THC posted:

youre an idiot for not posting the "making of the ad" video, where the fart-huffing is turned up to 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL8BBOwupcI

aaaaaaaaaaaaa


very close to being a portlandia sketch. just pop in fred armisen in place of the dude.

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

"trying now"? they did the same loving thing 2 years ago with IE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_aj5rbhy2o

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:

very close to being a portlandia sketch. just pop in fred armisen in place of the dude.

put a flute into on it and get jeff goldblum in there as a diva artisanal small batch fog craftsman and it would be dead on

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

THC posted:

youre an idiot for not posting the "making of the ad" video, where the fart-huffing is turned up to 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL8BBOwupcI
p sure every computer they were using was a mac

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

I would like microsoft to "at least try" to release a good operating system instead of a stupid EDM ad

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

verge score: 8.8 no mentions embedded advertising



:laugh:

scamtank
Feb 24, 2011

my desire to just be a FUCKING IDIOT all day long is rapidly overtaking my ability to FUNCTION

i suspect that means i'm MENTALLY ILL


h . h

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Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

lol

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