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Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by simonh »

tyingq wrote: post #11
rightbyte wrote: post #3

"a more modern look and a redesigned Start menu" Oh please no. Hopefully the new OS will lead to less updates for Windows 10 being force pushed to my computer.

It's not clear where the reporter got the "redesigned start menu" idea from. Reads like it's just their personal guess. I'm also not clear on why the Win10 start menu got so much hate. I delete all the tiles and it then seems not much different than prior start menus.

Well, the first problem with the Start menu is there are two of them.

But for example, a user wants to look up or change something to do with the configuration. How do they go about choosing which of these to try on the right-click Start menu: System, Device Manager, Computer Management, Settings.

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by TonyTrapp »

duttaditya18 wrote: post #16
SteveNuts wrote: post #2

I have a strange feeling that the next version will be based on Linux kernel

Microsoft would never make the base of their system open source. It is fundamentally opposite to how Microsoft does business.

All the stuff they have recently released as open-source speaks otherwise. The problem why they will most likely never be able to open-source Windows is rather that they bought a lot of third-party components for the system that they simply aren't allowed to open-source. They'd probably have to rebuild half of the system to be able to open-source it, and that's the unlikely part.

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by dusted »

anotherhue wrote: post #12

Well if the current nostalgia trend is anything to go by, maybe they'll Remaster Windows 2000

I'd pay good money for a 1:1 Windows 2000 Pro, where the ONLY thing they've done is update whatever it is that needs updating to also run the new programs.

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by xxs »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #13
SteveNuts wrote: post #2

I have a strange feeling that the next version will be based on Linux kernel

Why would they throw away all driver compatibility and force themselves to rewrite all the userland libraries?

Totally agree and I think Windows based on Linux kernel makes no sense... yet imagine the year of the Linux desktop coming true for real?

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

To be fair, Linux distros change even faster than that, but it's pretty annoying that neither of them can make a single version that lasts more than a decade. I don't want to keep upgrading software my whole life, as if I need a new hammer every few years because nails keep "innovating"

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by selfhoster11 »

neilsimp1 wrote: post #24

Well, we all know the every-other-version-of-Windows-rule: Windows 2000 - Good Windows ME - Bad Windows XP - Good Windows Vista - Bad Windows 7 - Good Windows 8 - Bad Windows 10 - Good Windows 11 - ????

You missed a number with 8.1.

Windows 7 - Good

Windows 8 - Bad

Windows 8.1 - Good (a bit)

Windows 10 - Bad

Windows 11 - ???? (Good, hopefully)

That matches my perception more closely tbf

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by jhickok »

xxs wrote: post #36
neilsimp1 wrote: post #24

Well, we all know the every-other-version-of-Windows-rule: Windows 2000 - Good Windows ME - Bad Windows XP - Good Windows Vista - Bad Windows 7 - Good Windows 8 - Bad Windows 10 - Good Windows 11 - ????

Ugh, I'd take 8 over 10 any time - no extra ads

Windows 8.1 maybe, but Win 8 was Vista/ME tier.
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