Wasn't Windows 1 faked? :|
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Blazkowicz
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The ridiculous video of Steve Ballmer "selling it" was faked - it's a joke by Ballmer.
But sadly, Windows 1 was real. Nobody bought it. Tiled windows on a low res screen and no software?
In fact we see the colorful low res screens of Windows 1 but most PCs had no such graphical capabilities. I think I've realized it's high res EGA (640x350 16 color). In 85 or 86, that would have been extremely expensive, unlikely on a business PC.
CGA would be more common, that's only 640x200 and 1bit "color".
Hell I once found a PC/AT (1987, with hard drive, barely younger than me) and I played with it. It had a text-only "graphics card". Hard to sell a graphical OS when some of your target hardware actually has no support for graphics at all.
But sadly, Windows 1 was real. Nobody bought it. Tiled windows on a low res screen and no software?
In fact we see the colorful low res screens of Windows 1 but most PCs had no such graphical capabilities. I think I've realized it's high res EGA (640x350 16 color). In 85 or 86, that would have been extremely expensive, unlikely on a business PC.
CGA would be more common, that's only 640x200 and 1bit "color".
Hell I once found a PC/AT (1987, with hard drive, barely younger than me) and I played with it. It had a text-only "graphics card". Hard to sell a graphical OS when some of your target hardware actually has no support for graphics at all.
Blazkowicz
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I was told on the internets than MS did provide a free update from Windows 3.1 to 3.11.
This way you can get Windows 3.11 without Workgroups!
But people rarely had internet access, it was even just before the CD-ROM craze.
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Your missing windows 2000 on that list.
He said except NT which weren't for home use.
2k was NT5.0 for pro, XP was 5.1 for home, after XP all OS were meant for pro and home. (with difference suffix.)
It was initially planned at such, but IIRC at the time of release it was made clear it's still professional OS, which is why they came up with WinME quickly
Even though it was released later, should we then lists 64-bit versions of the other OSes, too?
(Also, XP x64 was only released as "professional" version IIRC, not Home?)
Blazkowicz
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It is somewhat different under the hood as it's NT 5.2. Of course all the GUI, icons etc. are the same.
Too bad I didn't switch to XP 64 back in 2009, I could have had 5 more years of easy, lean and fast Windows use. I went with linux instead (my XP went the way of Three Mile Island back then, due to unusually robust and professional malware)
Too bad I didn't switch to XP 64 back in 2009, I could have had 5 more years of easy, lean and fast Windows use. I went with linux instead (my XP went the way of Three Mile Island back then, due to unusually robust and professional malware)
Validity of "every 2nd MS OS is crap"
Ha ha ha, why?
Looks like release of Windows 10 will have DX12 included with it. That being said we're looking at April for 2015 build conference maybe?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/10/01/directx-12-and-windows-10.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/10/01/directx-12-and-windows-10.aspx
I thought WinMe was made for a compatibility path for 95/98 users since a lot of older hardware like printers and scanners didn't work with windows 2000 .
Windows 2000 being on the market allowed XP to gain the compatibility it needed to really work well for the average home user.
Windows 2000 is basicly vista. Vista came in and changed a lot and broke a lot of compatibility but in turn allowed windows 7 to be a universaly loved OS
April could work. Would be a perfect time for hardware too. Core M should be avalible then. So a surface refresh with that 5watt chip instead of the 15 watt i5 would work well and performance is within 15% of each other but with less throttling due to heat it should perform better. That would work for all laptops also. Back to school season should get skydale .
Cherry tree should also be known by that time.
cherry tree at 8 gigs of ram in a 7 inch tablet would be a nice little chip.
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Its not my list but the wikipedia page, see link
If you think that 98se is a separate major release then you need to get them to change the wiki page
Nope, they've confirmed Win10 will be released late 2015 (Q4)
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