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Windows 8 in 2011
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So Apple has a pretty regular release schedule for their OS, pretty much every 2 years. They charge (generally) $129 for the OS, even less if you get the 5 pack.
Microsoft is apparently moving to a 2 year release schedule as well, except they charge nearly twice as much for the Home Premium, and nearly triple that for their Professional and Ultimate.
I guess with PCs being so cheap, they're counting on people buying a new computer instead of bothering with an OS upgrade.
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"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction
with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the
moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the
neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"
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Is this the 128 bits version?
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It's a rounding error. Taking typical delays into account the actual date is 2014.
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When it does come out it will have 10% of the original innovations it was supposed to have, it will be buggy and unreliable and they will quickly bury it with Windows 9, which sets them up for their own X version soon enough.
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Originally Posted by sek929 
it will be buggy and unreliable and they will quickly bury it with Windows 9.
LOL, I was just thinking: what are the odds they can hit another home run like Win 7 without properly failing in between...
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Originally Posted by sek929
When it does come out it will have 10% of the original innovations it was supposed to have, it will be buggy and unreliable and they will quickly bury it with Windows 9, which sets them up for their own X version soon enough.
Windows X!!!!
Window sex? 
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
Windows X!!!!
Window sex?
Microsoft will insist on pronouncing it this way (in contrast to Apple's "ten"), all logic to the contrary.
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Posting Junkie
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
Microsoft will insist on pronouncing it this way (in contrast to Apple's "ten"), all logic to the contrary.
Even if they release it as 'Windows 10' I'm going to insist on pronouncing it that way...
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Considering there's no rhyme or reason to Windows naming conventions:
Windows (version) 3.x
Windows (a year- two digits) 95, 98
Windows (a year- four digits) 2000
Windows (two letter abbreviations) NT, ME
Windows (two random letters) XP
Windows (name) Vista
Windows (a random number) 7
I think it's time to return to the version number, so I'm going to guess:
Windows 12.1
Or maybe Windows Bobcat
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Originally Posted by CRASH HARDDRIVE
Windows (a random number) 7
Which is really random because the shipping version of Windows 7 is Windows 6.1
Why 7? - Windows Vista Team Blog - The Windows Blog
   
(though they try to explain it in that blog)
"So we decided to ship the Windows 7 code as Windows 6.1 - which is what you will see in the actual version of the product in cmd.exe or computer properties."
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES
It's a rounding error. Taking typical delays into account the actual date is 2014.
Me like this post. Me really do.
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