Windows 10 launches this summer in 190 countries around the world • Hacker News Board

Re: Windows 10 launches this summer in 190 countries around the world

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Post by aceperry » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 7:27 PM UTC

james-skemp wrote: post #20

aceperry wrote: post #9

LOL, windows 8 users can't wait.

Meh. I can. Windows 8 works quite well on both of my touch capable laptops, my gaming rig, and old 4-5 year development machine. With 8.1 the Start button is back, but pressing the Windows key on the keyboard and selecting one of the pinned applications, or typing for search, works perfectly. It took a while for me to put aside my feeling that things had to stay how they were, but once I did (touch capable device hel…

I can't wait. I can't use Win8 because the interface sucks so much on a real laptop. What was MS thinking? And I also hope they speed up the startup time, because it's definitely not faster than win7. In fact, all it does is show the "desktop" quicker, but you can't do anything until the little circle stops spinning, and that takes just as long as win7.

Re: Windows 10 launches this summer in 190 countries around the world

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Post by daemin » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:50 PM UTC

AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #14

xtrumanx wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well there are other options: Q2/Q3 2015, mid 2015, etc.

I don't think any other (non-verbose) options encapsulate what summer means with the same specificity. Q2/Q3 includes a far longer span of time, mid-2015 covers a 4 month period that covers a significant portion of spring and doesn't cover the entirety of summer, and I fear that all other simple options would suffer the same fate. Considering the vast majority of computer users and potential Microsoft customers resid…

So in that case what does Winter 2016 imply? Is it January 2016, or December 2016?

Re: Windows 10 launches this summer in 190 countries around the world

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Post by hobarrera » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 5:23 AM UTC

AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #14

xtrumanx wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well there are other options: Q2/Q3 2015, mid 2015, etc.

I don't think any other (non-verbose) options encapsulate what summer means with the same specificity. Q2/Q3 includes a far longer span of time, mid-2015 covers a 4 month period that covers a significant portion of spring and doesn't cover the entirety of summer, and I fear that all other simple options would suffer the same fate. Considering the vast majority of computer users and potential Microsoft customers resid…

> I don't think any other (non-verbose) options encapsulate what summer means with the same specificity.

You mean lack of specificity?

From what I gather, it's at some point during the middle of my winter.

Of course, nobody actually remembers when the seasons start and end (though we just check wikipedia), while most people definitely know the order of the months. And even after checking, "this summer", is really a 3.5 month period, which is still as vague (if not more) as "mid 2015".

Re: Windows 10 launches this summer in 190 countries around the world

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Post by hobarrera » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 5:24 AM UTC

daemin wrote: post #22

AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think any other (non-verbose) options encapsulate what summer means with the same specificity. Q2/Q3 includes a far longer span of time, mid-2015 covers a 4 month period that covers a significant portion of spring and doesn't cover the entirety of summer, and I fear that all other simple options would suffer the same fate. Considering the vast majority of computer users and potential Microsoft customers resid…

So in that case what does Winter 2016 imply? Is it January 2016, or December 2016?

I'm guessing that depends on contextual clues. If someone says "this winter" during August 2015, you can expect it to be the one about to start.

Of course, in some scenarios it's just impossible to disambiguate.