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Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Post by justusthane »

duxup wrote: post #3

I'll be honest. I kinda lost track of windows, android, iOS versions at some point. And I think that's probably ok... I use it, it works, there ya go. Most everything I do really isn't OS dependent. I do fondly remember the days when OS upgrades was a huge change. I'll always fondly think of the Rolling Stone's "Start Me Up" and trying out OS/2 and various Linux flavors and so on. I used to spend HOURS customizing my…

That kind of makes sense for mobile OSs, and perhaps to a lesser extent MacOS, but Windows versions have always been pretty big shifts. 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10 are all quite different from each other.

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Post by hughrr »

duxup wrote: post #3

I'll be honest. I kinda lost track of windows, android, iOS versions at some point. And I think that's probably ok... I use it, it works, there ya go. Most everything I do really isn't OS dependent. I do fondly remember the days when OS upgrades was a huge change. I'll always fondly think of the Rolling Stone's "Start Me Up" and trying out OS/2 and various Linux flavors and so on. I used to spend HOURS customizing my…

Start me up … dah dah dah … you make a grown man cry.

Another marketing disaster.

Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Post by mixmastamyk »

corndoge wrote: post #7

Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last Windows version ever? As in it was going to be evergreen? Did I imagine that? Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...

Was probably true until macOS "went to 11," a la Spinal Tap.

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Post by ulzeraj »

duxup wrote: post #3

I'll be honest. I kinda lost track of windows, android, iOS versions at some point. And I think that's probably ok... I use it, it works, there ya go. Most everything I do really isn't OS dependent. I do fondly remember the days when OS upgrades was a huge change. I'll always fondly think of the Rolling Stone's "Start Me Up" and trying out OS/2 and various Linux flavors and so on. I used to spend HOURS customizing my…

Personally I don't think so. Every time I download and install from an Windows ISO it seems worse.

Right out of the bat there is a page where you need to uncheck all the spyware crap and there are so many it scrolls. They also make it so a normal local user is presented like a somewhat inferior experience than their web login. Then you have to fill in obligatory 3 recovery questions even if you are confident in your choice of passwords.

Nothing of this is new but I've recently had to install Windows 10 on an old computer to use some crapware and after all the questioning and cringe "we are working hang on it" messages there was some huge tray icon displaying some weather data and other unnecessary stuff. Something about Interests and it sits there with lots of unsolicited stuff like OneDrive.

The start menu is littered with squares filled with animated web page stuff and honestly its hard to find out if those are about news or ads.

Now I'm not a Windows hater. I mean... LTSC and Windows server are nice. Why does default Windows and Windows Pro must look like BonziBuddyOS?

Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Post by hughrr »

spicybright wrote: post #18
hughrr wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft marketing is totally schizophrenic. Never believe a fucking word of it for a second and your life will be good.

Most marketing is.

Actually I don’t think it is.

Microsoft promise way ahead of time, fail to deliver, reduce scope, kick out a broken half finished product, get the customers to beta test it, change their mind on the direction of the entire organisation in that space and generally leave everyone confused and a bit burned out. This happens every time and has done for the last 20 years. Even the latest reinvention has just increased the frequency of this incompetence.

Most marketing at least delivers an 80% product.

Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Post by willtim »

Lariscus wrote: post #24
willtim wrote: post #9

Windows definitely needs improving. I tried the Gnome 40 desktop recently and it's much more polished, consistent and refined.

Does the file chooser show thumbnails yet?

Yep, shows thumbnails for pictures, videos, pdfs etc. More formats than Windows in fact. Windows has been standing still, the rest of the world hasn't.

EDIT: I used "Files", not the file picker.

Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Post by HideousKojima »

neogodless wrote: post #14
TravHatesMe wrote: post #12

> There is little doubt that the system will be called Windows 11, but it may still not be so. For some reason my gut says it won't be called Windows 11. I have a feeling it will be called something confusing or unappealing. Love MS products but they always fell short with branding.

Are we past the naming phase for Windows X or Windows One?

Windows X One .NET Series 10 Core Framework.

Edit: Anyone willing to give me some betting odds on it being Microsoft Bob 2.0?

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