Windows 10

[Sheffield Tony]

So, Microsoft's next OS release will be Windows 10. Some seem confused about what happened to V9.

It is obvious. It has been common knowledge for some time that there is a recurring pattern to Microsoft's releases, wth the even numbered releases being the ones to avoid, being largely full of bloat and missfeatures, and that the odd numbered ones are the most reliable. They have clearly decided to stop producing the reliable ones :wink:

 

[Woodchips2]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Regards Keith

 

[dm65]

Personally I think they should number Office & Windows the same then when I am talking to people over the phone and they tell me they are running Windows 2007, 2010 etc I don't have to keep biting my tongue

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

"reliable" is a bit of a stretch Tony

 

[Eric The Viking]

When XP went EOL, I switched to XUbuntu. I'm not missing Microsoft.

XUbuntu is not bomb proof, but it is fast, and, as I have a number of networked machines of different types around the place, the ability to connect to and mount filesystems of many different types is wonderful. Whilst I was setting up (several machines to convert), I had NTFS, DOS, ISO (DVD), HPFS (Mac), and the Linux non-journalling file system all mounted on the same machine simultaneously and with no fuss.

And, before anyone worries, Sketchup runs just fine under Wine (windows emulation environment). The only nuisance factor right now is that I can't get my almost 20-year old serial (Wacom) graphics tablet to work properly on my main machine. Apparently it should, but I haven't got the config files for the device driver just right. Since the USB ones are "plug-and-play" I may be forced to replace it.

I'm typing this on a machine that's supposed to be a server. The whole box cost less than £200, including 8GB RAM, decent disk, screen, mouse and keyboard. It runs Sketchup too, with the only issue being it's slow because I'm using the native analogue graphics output.

The big box downstairs has dual DVI screens with a decent graphics card. Sketchup under Wine is about as fast as it is under 32-bit XP (I can dual-boot).

So I probably won't be taking much interest in Windows 10, or 11, or 12...

E.