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techcrunch.com reports Windows 10 Technical Preview will be available for download today and the full OS will be available mid-2015. Meanwhile, The Verge has a video of desktop/tablet mode transitions that seem to make the new version of Microsoft's OS quite a bit less annoying than Windows 8 has been for users.
frojack writes:
Cnet along with every other tech site are reporting that Microsoft is skipping Windows 9, officially announcing the next major version will be called Windows 10.
Originally codenamed Windows Threshold, the new operating system essentially does away with the tiled "Metro" user interface that Microsoft had attempted to implement across its entire device line, from desktop PCs to Surface tablets and Widows Phone devices. It is such a substantial leap, according to Microsoft's executive VP of operating systems, Terry Myerson, that the company decided it would be best to skip over Windows 9, the widely expected name for the next version.
While early reviews of pre-release candidates did have some pleasant surprises; the major changes seems to be a far more intelligent handling of tablets which have keyboards and mice that can come and go, be folded out of the way, and the OS switches seamlessly from a desktop oriented user interface to a touch oriented one. The Verge has an extensive writeup and a video of this in action.
Some may criticize the name change as desperation, others will simply announce "too little too late". Others trot out allegedly year old April Fools Joke stories that (if not totally tongue in cheek) predicted this name change on April fools day in 2013.
The changes shown seem to address the big issues in the interface previously known as Metro, in a rather well integrated way.
So what say Soylentils: Is this enough? Has Microsoft actually listening to the complaints since Windows 8 was first released? Has their self inflicted gunshot wound to the foot healed? Will this re-start the corporate customers on delayed upgrades? Or will they hold out for 11?
Or, is the best you have to say about it "too little too late"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 01 2014, @08:00PM
Back in 2008, the other site covered Foxconn's MoBo/BIOS failure with Linux. [googleusercontent.com] (no orig link[1]) [google.com]
I have that page indexed to the comment by hansraj (down past where highlighting still works).
His 2nd point concludes with "I can't think of any good reason why they need to do that unless they want to actively break things for linux."
alexborges, up the thread, says "This is criminal behaviour".
Whether it was just sloth or actual collusion with the anti-competitive 800 pound gorilla, they clearly only tested against Windoze.
Average (648), down the thread from him, suggests giving Foxconn's goods poor ratings on resellers' sites.
AC #24332951, down the thread a bit from Average, has a very on-topic +5 Informative post.
Foxconn realized they were in deep kimchee and, as ratboy666 points out in the followup story, angry customers are a powerful force so they quickly produced a BIOS update. [googleusercontent.com] (no orig link[2]) [google.com]
On the followup page, symbolset has another +5 Informative post.
[1] [2] I'm not linking directly to the other site any more.
If the link is broken because Dice Holdings is still screwing around,
I advise you to substitute a valid 12-character string for the bogus one following q=cache:
-- gewg_