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1 posted on 05/13/2015 8:14:54 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: dayglored

Ping for your list. . .


2 posted on 05/13/2015 8:15:17 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker

The snippet only listed six versions...?


3 posted on 05/13/2015 8:16:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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4 posted on 05/13/2015 8:17:23 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civil law enables him to do so.)
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To: Swordmaker

10 binary is 2 decimal

10 hex is 16 decimal

and others in between.


5 posted on 05/13/2015 8:18:18 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (an icon of resistance within the oppressed patriots, who represent resilience in the face of SSV)
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To: Swordmaker
There are seven different versions of Windows 10

As well there should be. One of the long-term corporate goals of Microsoft is to keep as many people confused and frustrated as possible.

As someone who had to deal with Microsoft Vista for many years, I know this to be a fact.

8 posted on 05/13/2015 8:24:49 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Swordmaker

They absolutely just cannot help themselves. Good grief.


15 posted on 05/13/2015 8:45:34 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Swordmaker

There could be a hundred the way you can code one program and then remove certain code with just a keyword. There could be a rumpledumplepurplepumpkin version if Microsoft so chose. Microsoft just has to write code once then set a keyword for each version and depending on the license number you get puts the codeword into the parameters for the installation. Simple yet effective and generates way more profits than writing code separately for each version. So there are 7 or 10 or how many doesn’t matter, the same code for the highest level version gets shipped for the lowest version.

Nothing to really see here.


16 posted on 05/13/2015 8:50:41 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: Swordmaker

I just ordered some quad-core Raspberry Pi Model 2 computers.

There is a version for the Pi, I believe it must be the Windows 10 IoT Core. It will be interesting to see what it is like.

I bought some of the CanaKits complete Pi 2 packages... right now it’s the best buy for the Pi Model 2.

http://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-Complete-Original-Preloaded/dp/B008XVAVAW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1431575497&sr=8-3&keywords=pi+model+2


17 posted on 05/13/2015 8:51:41 PM PDT by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: Swordmaker
I'm very likely to go for the free Windows 10. I really like 8.1 but am annoyed by the one size fits all full screen windows Apps. Apparently 10 will give us Apps in a Window. Big plus.

The Start Screen revisions in 10 don't do much for me. I actually like the 8.1full screen setup despite my dislike of full screen apps in general. In any case it looks to me that 10 will be sufficiently customizable to keep me happy.

20 posted on 05/13/2015 9:19:41 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Swordmaker

Seven times the normal problems with Windows.


25 posted on 05/14/2015 2:09:37 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: Swordmaker

Or I could just download a Linux distro and be done with the Windows jerkarama.

At this point, all my critical apps run on Linux and are free.


26 posted on 05/14/2015 2:19:27 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Swordmaker

Oh, for the love of...

I mean, it’s really not as bad as it appears once you break it down to the fact that they’re combining desktop/laptop, mobile, and embedded all under the same umbrella, but this whole idea of more “flavors” of an OS than Baskin Robbins has never been a good one, and I would have thought they’d have learned their lessons by now.


29 posted on 05/14/2015 5:08:06 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: Swordmaker

Get ready to see the most trimmed down, basic version coming pre-installed on gaming systems along with customers demanding they need the high end enterprise version for basic Internet and email usage on their laptops.


30 posted on 05/14/2015 7:59:02 AM PDT by Marko413
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